<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello Alexander,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Actually composer produces the effect
I want, at least for landscape content within a portrait page.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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".</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards, Doug x2571</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Hello Douglas,<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Page dimensions are defined on every simple-page-master.
Therefore you<br>
just need to switch pagemasters appropriately (please find simple<br>
example attached). I can't say what happens in XSL-FO produced by<br>
Arbortext, but from your description I conclude that it just wrap<br>
"landscape" tables in container with reference-orientation="90"<br>
instead of using separate page-master. So the problem is in Arbortext<br>
Composer rather then in XEP.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Best regards,<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Dcac> Most of my output is in A4 portrait mode,
but I would like to be able to<br>
Dcac> output some pages in landscape mode and some pages on A3 landscape.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Dcac> Using xsl from Arbortext Styler I can produce
landscape content (a rotated<br>
Dcac> table or a rotated graphic and caption) within a portrait page
(as defined<br>
Dcac> by the positon of the header and footer) but the XEP produced
pdf has two<br>
Dcac> drawbacks:<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Dcac> i) if the content is longer than one
page the overflow material is lost,<br>
Dcac> and<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Dcac> ii) the page is displayed in portrait mode,
so the table appears sideways<br>
Dcac> (i.e. English text runs from bottom to top) on the screen. Using
Arbortext<br>
Dcac> Composer to produce the pdf, the pdf has additional pages to hold
overflow<br>
Dcac> and the page is shown in landscape mode, making the content easier
to<br>
Dcac> view.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Dcac> Is there any way of producing landscape pages
(or landscape within<br>
Dcac> portrait, viewed onscreen as landscape) and A3 landscape
pages that<br>
Dcac> revert back to A4 portrait at the end of the current element?
The<br>
Dcac> requirement to issue overflow pages automatically is a 'nice-to-have'
that<br>
Dcac> could be dropped, at a pinch. (In a way, what I want is a nested
pageset -<br>
Dcac> but that is not allowed in xsl-fo).<br>
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