[JIRA] Commented: (FOR-402) Specify page breaks in XML source

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     Author: Dave Brondsema
    Created: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 4:56 PM
       Body:
Try <section class="page"> with no extra-css required.  I think it'll work, but I don't have time to try right now.

This is an undocumented "feature" I put in so that wholesite.pdf could have breaks per-page.  If this works and is useful, we should make the class name more unique, and documente the capability.
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        Key: FOR-402
    Summary: Specify page breaks in XML source
       Type: New Feature

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Trivial

    Project: Forrest
 Components: 
             Skins (general issues)
   Versions:
             HEAD

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Ross Gardler

    Created: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 8:23 AM
    Updated: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 4:56 PM

Description:
>From a mail to the users list by Jacques, Olivier (OCBU-Test Infra):

> As per suggested in the documentation, here is why I wanted to create a new skin: insert page breaks at certain points in the document.
> This is done using CSS with the attribute: "page-break-before: always"
> So I did, in "mytigris.css":
> h3, h4 {
>  margin-bottom: 0;
>  page-break-before: always;
> }
>  
> It would be great to have this hability from within the document XML source.


Yes, I have often thought this (although in my case it is for PDF output I want control).

You can do this in HTML without the need to create a new skin by using classes:

For example:

<h1 class="pageBreakBefore">

Then in skinconf.xml <extra-css> you put:

.pageBreakBefore {
 margin-bottom: 0;
 page-break-before: always;
}

To respect those classes in PDF will require changes in the Formatting Object stylesheets. I think this an excellent enhancement so I will add it to the issue tracker.

Ross 


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