[xep-support] A3 pages and Landscape Pages

[Douglas_Morrison at contractor.amat.com]

Hello Alexander,

Actually composer produces the effect I want, at least for landscape 
content within a portrait page.

However, I think the real problem is how to use xsl to translate from the 
Docbook xml source to the sort of xsl-fo that you kindly provided.

If xsl-fo (and xep) allowed nested pagesets then it would not be so much 
of a problem: at the end of one pageset it could resume with the previous 
pageset.

If I identify a table as landscape by setting an attribute 
role="A3landscape" then I can see how to make that end the current pageset 
and start a new pageset, but what happens at the end of the table? How 
does it know what pageset to continue with? Actually, I suppose I could 
specify that with another attribute, or use a compound attribute such as 
role="A3landscapethenA4portrait".

Another approach might be to use a processing instruction, such as 
<?changepageset type="A3landscape"> and then have another PI at the end of 
that section to return to A4portrait (or whatever).

I am very new to xml, xsl, xsl-fo, xpath, xep, styler, composer etc. so 
would welcome any advice on the best approach to follow.

Regards, Doug  x2571

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Hello Douglas,

Page dimensions are defined on every simple-page-master. Therefore you
just need to switch pagemasters appropriately (please find simple
example attached). I can't say what happens in XSL-FO produced by
Arbortext, but from your description I conclude that it just wrap
"landscape" tables in container with reference-orientation="90"
instead of using separate page-master. So the problem is in Arbortext
Composer rather then in XEP.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
RenderX


Dcac> Most of my output is in A4 portrait mode, but I would like to be 
able to
Dcac> output some pages in landscape mode and some pages on A3 landscape.

Dcac> Using xsl from Arbortext Styler I can produce landscape content (a 
rotated
Dcac> table or a rotated graphic and caption) within a portrait page (as 
defined
Dcac> by the positon of the header and footer)  but the XEP produced pdf 
has two
Dcac> drawbacks:

Dcac>  i) if the content is longer than one page the overflow material is 
lost,
Dcac> and

Dcac> ii) the page is displayed in portrait mode, so the table appears 
sideways
Dcac> (i.e. English text runs from bottom to top) on the screen. Using 
Arbortext
Dcac> Composer to produce the pdf, the pdf has additional pages to hold 
overflow
Dcac> and the page is shown in landscape mode, making the content easier 
to
Dcac> view.

Dcac> Is there any way of producing landscape pages (or landscape within
Dcac> portrait, viewed onscreen as landscape)  and A3 landscape pages that
Dcac> revert back to A4 portrait at the end of the current element? The
Dcac> requirement to issue overflow pages automatically is a 
'nice-to-have' that
Dcac> could be dropped, at a pinch. (In a way, what I want is a nested 
pageset -
Dcac> but that is not allowed in xsl-fo).

Dcac> Regards, Doug  x2571

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