Well...after I posted that I realized that I still have some issues. The
appendix is definitely landscape now, but the way I fixed it created some
header/footer issues.

The first step is to separate your appendix from the rest of the body-sequence
by creating a new page-sequence for the appendix (as Jan Nyland mentioned
previously in this topic)

For those using xmetal, unfortuntely the rest of Jan's advice won't work for you
as the "fo/cfg/fo/layout-masters.xsl" file is not used (somebody correct me if I
am wrong...)

So for XMetaL users, the solution seems to be to go to
Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl and comment out the import of
xm_layout_master_overrides.xsl I am sure there are other ways to this but I am
the lone customization person here (as a summer intern, so it isn't like I have
had any formal training whatsoever) and this is the solution that seemed doable
to me.

This will allow you to go into Customization\fo\layout-masters.xml and change
the page-width and page-height in any of the simple-page-masters that you want
to be landscape.

However, XMetal must do some fancy-schmancy processing in some of their
stylesheets with respect to headers and footers, because mine no longer look as
they did before. They're still there and all but they are really close to the
top of the page. I'm currently trying to figure out what to do about that. If
anyone has ideas/suggestions about that I would love to hear them. It is
amazing sometimes how fixing one problem opens a whole new can of worms. :-P

Amber






--- In dita-users@yahoogroups.com, Mark Peters <markpeters.work@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Amber,
>
> What was the fix? I'm not trying to change the orientation of my PDF
> output, but others might be interested in your findings.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM,
> ambermattson86<ambermattson86@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Disregard that last message, I figured it out :-)
> >
> >
>