Calling Page Sequences with Inline Commands
If a document sequence control stream is associated with a template, it is used to provide a default page sequence for the document. New page sequences are called using inline commands. It is possible to call single level or nested page sequences.
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The pink page output when page sets are not correctly configured in Arbortext Styler is the default page layout for Arbortext Styler documents.
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Page sequences are called using the fFormatting.pageSequenceStart() method and ended with the fFormatting.pageSequenceEnd() method. The fFormatting.pageSequenceStart() method requires an fDocumentSequenceItem as its first parameter, for example:
var myDSItem = new fDocumentSequenceItem;
var pSeq = template.content.getPageSequence("myChapterPageSequence");
myDSItem.id = "123";
mDSItem.sequence = pSeq;
formatting.pageSequenceStart(myDSItem);
The second parameter on the pageSequenceStart() method is a boolean operator that confirms whether PTC Arbortext Layout Developer should stack the page sequence or end the current sequence and start a new one at the same level.
Stacking page sequences allows them to be nested within each other — if a page sequence ends it naturally falls back to the previous one. You can stack page sequences up to 20 levels deep.
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If you start a new page sequence, PTC Arbortext Layout Developer automatically starts a new page (insert a page break). If you start a new page sequence immediately after starting another, with no output made between the two starts, PTC Arbortext Layout Developer will switch the applied page sequences without starting multiple new pages.
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