[xep-support] Double Page Numbering Revisited

[Ron Catterall]

I seem to remember that this problem was treated very recently on the 
docbook list - and a reasonable solution was found - 
docbook-apps at lists.oasis-open.org


>At 2006-03-30 13:05 -0600, Kevin Trainor wrote:
>>When I generate the slides for a course, I use <fo:page-number/> to 
>>number the slides consecutively.  Additonally, some of my slides 
>>make up a series that I would also like to label as [1 of 4], [2 of 
>>4], [3 of 4], etc.  So far, I have not figured out a good way to do 
>>this.  It seems to me that this would be a double page numbering 
>>scheme like the one that was discussed on this list about a month 
>>ago.
>
>Nope!  I don't see this as a double page numbering issue.
>
>>I recall that the best advice in that thread was to do post 
>>processing on the FO output file.
>
>Shouldn't have to.
>
>>Can anyone think of a way to do this with just a single pass of 
>>XSLT and XSL-FO?
>
>I'm assuming you are creating a page sequence for each <series> 
>element.  Put an empty block at the end of the flow for each series, 
>and use a unique value for each series to ensure no collisions 
>(perhaps use the generate-id() of the series element as the value).
>
>Then, in your static content use:
>
>  [<page-number/> of <page-number-citation ref-id="{generate-id(.)}"/>]
>
>You aren't "counting" the pages in the series, you are citing the 
>last page in the series.  So, if a series has 6 pages instead of 4, 
>you get "6" because you are citing the last page of the series.
>
>Note you will have to restart your page numbering with each 
>page-sequence, so use initial-page-number="1".
>
>Note also that if you do not want a blank page after a series that 
>has an odd number of pages, you will need 
>force-page-count="no-force" because the default of "auto" will imply 
>blank pages based on the page parity of the initial page number.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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