Page Layout Masters

XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Page Layout Masters

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on XSL-FO page layout masters. Topics include introduction of simple-page-master and page-sequence-master; declaring region-body, region-before, region-after, region-start and region-end; mapping a page-sequence to a layout or layout sequence; mapping flow of blocks to page regions.

Layout Declarations

simple-page-master - Simple Page Layout

simple-page-master Attributes and Sub Elements

simple-page-master/region-body Sub Element

region-before and region-after Sub Elements

region-start and region-end Sub Elements

"Body" Region Margin and "Side" Region Extent

Precedence of Side Region Corners

Page Layout and Page Sequence Mapping

What Is "page-sequence-master"

Layout Sequence Example - Cover and Content

Wheat Is "repeatable-page-master-alternatives"?

Layout Sequence Example - Odd and Even Pages

Takeaways:

There are two types of page layout masters: simple-page-master and page-sequence-master.
simple-page-master declares a single page layout with 5 regions: region-body, region-before, region-after, region-start and region-end.
The region-body is located in center of the page.
region-before, region-after, region-start and region-end are located along region-body margin lines and extended towards the center of the page.
A page-sequence can be mapped to a simple-page-master layout to generate multiple pages by repeating the same layout.
The page-sequence/flow must be mapped to region-body region of the layout.
A page-sequence/static-content should be mapped to a region-before, region-after, region-start or region-end.
page-sequence-master declares a layout sequence with multiple simple-page-master layouts.
A page-sequence can be mapped to a page-sequence-master layout sequence to generate multiple pages by looping through layouts in the layout sequence.