[FEATURE REQUEST] ClearPage that applyes also for spread masters

[Cicorione]

Hi @pgundlach

I've noticed this situation that is a little bit counter-intuitive if you come from a DTP software like InDesign.

I have my default odd & even master which apply fine to the layout until I need to introduce a new master and it doesn't work nicely anymore because, for what I understood, you can only assign one master at the time, e.g.:

<ClearPage pagetype="Special" />

Once, you showed that I can use switch cases in the master pages to apply a different layout based on odd or even pages, which is fine but has a noticeable limit: you can't put <Margin> into a case; therefore you can use that master only if your layout has same margins for both odd & even.

Now I am wondering if you can consider to add to <ClearPage> the ability to read two parameters for pagetype instead of just one, so when it has two parameters it assumes that are for left & right pages:

<ClearPage pagetype="left,right" />.

Does my request make sense?

Best regards,
Cicorione

[pgundlach]

Interesting, that makes sense. I will think about that after my vacation.

Meanwhile, you can simulate a similar setup by setting a variable and make the master page dependant on it:

<Pagetype test="$pagetype = 'mypage' and sd:even(sd:current-page())">
    ...
</Pagetype>

<Pagetype test="$pagetype = 'mypage' and sd:odd(sd:current-page())">
    ...
</Pagetype>

and

<SetVariable variable="pagetype" select="'mypage'" />

(untested)