Robert B. wrote:
We are using docbook 5 “articles” for some of our technical
documentation, and the rendering to PDF is working very well. However I
can’t see how to insert page breaks into the docbook source. Our
in-house doc template starts each new H1 section on a fresh page.
This is the normal behavior for a DocBook 5 <article>.
Please consider converting your DocBook 5 <article> to <book>. This must
be done by hand, but at least, it's not difficult and it's done once for
all.
See for example:
- Sample DocBook 5 <article>:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/mathml/help.pdf
- Sample DocBook 5 <book>:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/gui/gui.pdf
After you'll do this, the DocBook XSL stylesheets (which are not XMLmind
Software's work) will automatically insert a new page before each
chapter, which is generally what you'll want in a technical
documentation.
How do I achieve the same result?
Unfortunately, there is no simple way to force a page-break. You need to
do some "XSL programming" for that.
How to do this is documented in "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, Page
breaking", http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html
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