Re: [Docutils-users] page breaks

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Brad Allen wrote:

> David Goodger wrote:
>> <snip>
>> The reason for this lack of functionality is because page breaks are
>> purely formatting.  There's no semantics behind them.  A page break
>> has no intrinsic meaning.
>>
>> So the question for you is: *why* do you want a page break?  And
>> where?  Is there some construct that a page break is associated with?
>> If, for example, every section should start a new page, the back-end
>> stylesheet should implement the breaks as formatting attributes of the
>> document.
>>
> Ok. So rst is intended to document content structure, not style. And a
> page is an aspect of style, not structure.
>
> In our case, our document style page breaks associated with every major
> section.
>
> We are also going to need a letterhead image on every page except the
> first (the first page needs a different background image).
>
> I am not yet sure how that will work, but maybe we can accomplish both
> using LaTex styles.

have a look at latex package fancyhdr or similar.

and i think both settings should be in the stylesheet not the document

cheers

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