Are dynamic folio headers possible?

[Tim Martin <tm...@martinballet.com>]

Hi all,

Newbie here. We create a directory of contact information and would like 
to indicate on the upper, outer corners of each page the range of names 
to be found on that page. For instance, if the first person listed on a 
page is John Abbott and the last is Larry Alcott, the folio would read 
"Abbott -- Alcott".

But my impression is that a text flow is a flow and new pages are 
brought in as needed and a processer wouldn't be able to distinguish 
when that is.

Am I wrong? Can this be done?

At the moment we're getting by with feeding XML to Framemaker+SGML but 
we'd like to go directly to PDF.

Thanks for any help...

--Tim

Re: Are dynamic folio headers possible?

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Tim Martin wrote:
> Newbie here. We create a directory of contact information and would like 
> to indicate on the upper, outer corners of each page the range of names 
> to be found on that page. For instance, if the first person listed on a 
> page is John Abbott and the last is Larry Alcott, the folio would read 
> "Abbott -- Alcott".
> 
> But my impression is that a text flow is a flow and new pages are 
> brought in as needed and a processer wouldn't be able to distinguish 
> when that is.
> 
> Am I wrong? Can this be done?

You probably have to use fo:marker and fo:retrieve-marker.
Look at docs/examples/glossary.* in the FOP distribution.

J.Pietschmann