Re: FO page number positions

Hi Tanzila,

> The aim is to have every rightPage with an even page number in the
> right-hand position of the page.
>
> While every leftPage should have an odd page number in the left-hand
> position.

I'm not sure that this is the way you *should* do it, but this works:

Both the rightPage and leftPage fo:simple-page-master formatting
objects should contain a fo:region-before formatting object to give
the header. You need to give these two fo:region-before formatting
objects different names, using the region-name property. So something
like:

  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="leftPage">
    <fo:region-body margin="1.75cm" />
    <fo:region-before region-name="leftHeader"
                      extent="1.5cm" precedence="true" />
  </fo:simple-page-master>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="rightPage" margin="0.5cm">
    <fo:region-body margin="1.75cm" />
    <fo:region-before region-name="rightHeader"
                      extent="1.5cm" precedence="true" />
  </fo:simple-page-master>

Now in the fo:page-sequence, you need one fo:static-content formatting
object for the leftHeader and one fo:static-content for the
rightHeader. In the leftHeader, the fo:block should have a text-align
of 'left' while in the rightHeader, the fo:block should have a
text-align of 'right':

  <fo:page-sequence master-name="contents" initial-page-number="43">
     <fo:static-content flow-name="leftHeader"
        <fo:block font-family="Courier" font-size="10px"
                  text-align="left">
           <fo:page-number/>
        </fo:block>
     </fo:static-content>
     <fo:static-content flow-name="rightHeader"
        <fo:block font-family="Courier" font-size="10px"
                  text-align="right">
           <fo:page-number/>
        </fo:block>
     </fo:static-content>
     ...
  </fo:page-sequence>

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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