Pagedown: Extra blank pages

[vidonne]

We are using the Paged HTML Document template for the unhcr-report project but we have a few issue with extra blank page automatically added.

1. There is always one extra blank page between the frontmatter and chapter section. I haven't included any break-before or break-after for this in my CSS but can't get rid of it. Does it come included in the package?
2. We set break-before: left; for the back-cover section but when it is suppose to sit on the left page following the final page with content, it inserts 2 blank pages instead. Is this behavior normal? The other scenario works as expected.

Thanks for your help

[RLesur]

Hi @vidonne !

Have you also tried with the development version of pagedown? #202 should have fixed that.

[vidonne]

@RLesur indeed it removed the extra blank pages but now there is no more page by list e.g. 1 page for the table of content, 1 for list of figures, etc.

Same for the <h1> they don't create page break by default. I guess all of this is easily solve by adding page break to the <h1> tag.

Another thing with the update to the new dev version of pagedown it doesn't find anymore the backcover image. See
Reproducible Analysis_pagedown_dev_v.pdf backcover BG disappeared compare to previous version.

[vidonne]

@RLesur trying to fix this I noticed that break-before: recto works but when I change it to break-before: page it doesn't any idea why?
Also since we upgraded the pagedown version still getting the error of the back-cover image not showing anymore.

[vidonne]

Actually I think I know why the back-cover doesn't show it related to the issue 211 as in the default css the back-cover image is called with .pagedjs_page:last-of-type {background-image: var(--back-cover);}

[RLesur]

when I change it to break-before: page it doesn't any idea why?

This is odd. I'm pretty confident that break-before: page should work.

Actually I think I know why the back-cover doesn't show it related to the issue 211 as in the default css the back-cover image is called with .pagedjs_page:last-of-type {background-image: var(--back-cover);}

Yes, this is the same issue as #211