Double Side Pagination

A common use case is to arrange the chapters of the publication to start on an odd page number.

In your customization CSS, add the following:

@page chapter {
	-oxy-initial-page-number: auto-odd;
}
@page table-of-contents {
	-oxy-initial-page-number: auto-odd;
}

Supported values for -oxy-initial-page-number include: auto, auto-even, auto-odd, or a number.

By making the chapters start on an odd page, the CSS processor might add blank pages to the previous page sequence as padding.

To style those blank pages add the following code in your customization CSS:

@page chapter:blank, table-of-contents:blank {
     @top-left      { content: none; }
     @top-center    { content: none; }
     @top-right     { content: none; }
     @bottom-left   { content: none; }
     @bottom-center { content: none; }
     @bottom-right  { content: none; }
}

Another use case is to specify a number of pages for a section. Suppose that you have a table of contents that follows the cover page and you need to have an even number of pages. Hence, the next chapter would start on an even page.

In your customization CSS, use the -oxy-force-page-count property with an even value:

@page table-of-contents {
	-oxy-force-page-count: even;
}

Supported values for -oxy-force-page-count include: even, odd, end-on-even, end-on-odd, auto, no-force.

You can use the :first page rule selector to control how the first page of a chapter looks. Suppose that you have defined the following layout for your default page and you want to put the publication title (the maptile string ) on the header of the first page (instead of the chapter name that is displayed on this page):

In your customization CSS, add the following:

@page chapter:first {
	@top-right-corner { content: string(maptitle); }
	@top-left { content: none; }
}