Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

[Sean Wheller <sean inwords co za>]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 23:36, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > The question is, do what want all our level 1
> > sections to start a new
> > page?  I've tried this already by modifiying the
> > section.title.level1.properties attribute-set, and I
> > don't think it's a
> > good idea.  Some level1 sections are very short and
> > it makes a page that
> > is primarily blank.
>
> Can we ask for all the level 1 sections of a
> particular chapter? I'd like all the prefs tools to
> start a fresh page.

You can. The question will be, "Do you want to?"

>
>  
>
> > With the processing instruction, I could go through
> > and mark places
> > where I see orphans, but I would have to do this
> > _right_ before the
> > release, as any changes made earlier in the document
> > can change where
> > orphans appear, etc.
>
> What we really need is to check the distance of a
> heading from the foot of the page. Less than 5cm, say,
> and push to the next page.

If you have a copy of XEP it will automatically handle this for you. Sadly FOP 
is great, but does not implement such convenience. 

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Sean Wheller
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