Re: [Serna] Docbook and Page Breaks

I think the request is for better automatic page breaking, not necessarily
support for manual page breaks.  The DocBook XSL stylesheets make extensive
use of keep-with-next and keep-together properties so that automatic page
breaking produces good results.  The processing instructions you mention are
only needed when an author wants to override the automatic page breaking for
specific instances.

I think the question is: does the Serna formatter support keep properties
when they are used in the editing stylesheet?  There are a few instances in
the XSL stylesheets that Serna ships for DocBook, but are those applied?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Antonov" <apg@...>
To: "Scott L. Holmes" <scottlholmes@...>
Cc: <serna-users@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Serna] Docbook and Page Breaks

>
> Scott,
>
> thanks for the good words about Serna!
>
> Unfortunately right now there is no way to do keep-together in Serna.
> Even docbook doesn't have a standard mechanism for this (it is done with
> non-standard extension PI's in nwalsh FO stylesheets). Serna also allows
> tables to break by default. There are workarounds (using fo:page-sequence)
> but they aren't elegant.
>
> Keep-together and explicit page break is on our pending features list,
> but not of the highest priority (priorities now are api, xinclude and
> webdav). Do you consider keep-together as a critical feature for you?
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Paul
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Scott L. Holmes wrote:
>
> > Greetings.  I spent quite a few hours working
> > with Serna this weekend. I originally wrote a
> > large user manual for a software project I
> > managed and I used Microsoft Word. I spent the
> > weekend, reflowing great big chunks of that
> > manual into a Docbook using Serna.  Serna is
> > performing wonderfully. I definitely think I'm
> > going to buy it and recommend it to others.
> >
> > I have a basic question. I am a bit new to
> > Docbook so pardon me if the answer can be found
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > I can see using the XSLT parameters view, the
> > size of the paper and orientation and stuff. In
> > Microsoft word, there is a way to designate that
> > paragraphs (and their headings) are not to be
> > separated (i.e. keep-together).  Is there some
> > equivalent in Docbook? I realize that Serna's
> > wysiwyg is an approximation but I would really
> > find it easier to author docs if certain levels
> > of the document were always kept together (don't
> > cross a page break).
> >
> > A fine product.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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