XSL-FO: Two 8.5x11 "pages" on single 17x11 sheet (double page spread)
Is it possible in FO to have two 8.5x11 layouts on a single 17x11 page? I haven't been able to find anything that relates to this. The following image shows what I'm trying to achieve. Is this even possible?
More information for people who weren't clear on the question. I have a large document, where most of the pages will be standard 8.5x11 with a header, footer, and main text. However, some of the pages are large schematics, which will need a 17 x 11 layout. I'm investigating whether it's possible to just create the whole document on an 17 x 11 basis. This means that on most pages I would put two 8.5x11 layouts on a single page, but my schematics would take up the whole page.
Thanks.
The simplest way would be to make a two-column fo:region-body with a very wide column gap.
If your FO formatter supports flow maps (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fafm), then you could make your flow flow into two regions (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e7231).
If it's one page, then you'll have to do something like a table in the single fo:region-before and single fo:region-after to get your two sets of header and footer text.
Note that if it is a single page, you'll only get one page number for the page, so you won't be able to put a different page number in each header/footer, if that's what you are planning.