RE: [xep-support] Double Page Numbering Revisited

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your reply. Your {generate-id} suggestion was particularly
helpful.

Yet, I still don't see how to make this work with your approach. In
addition to the page numbering of each of these series, I still want to
retain an uninterrupted page numbering of all of the slides in the document.
If I restart the page numbering for each of my multiple-slide sequences,
won't I ruin the overall page numbering scheme?

While the person who posted last month wanted to run two comprehensive page
numbering schemes throughout the entire document, I only want to run one
comprehensive page numbering scheme and an occasional parallel page
numbering scheme for each of my series. But, doesn't my scenario amount to
double page numbering? If not, how can I get <fo:page-number/> to generate
one value at the top of my page and another value at the bottom?

Thanks for your help.

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [xep-support] Double Page Numbering Revisited

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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