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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Admon graphics: customizing spaces
Le 14 déc. 2005 à 20:13, Bob Stayton a écrit : > If you have Dave Pawson's book "XSL-FO", the section titled > "Stacking Block > Areas and Spaces" in chapter 4 is good. No, I have not. I will offer it to me as Christmas gift. > > The ultimate authority is section 4.3 of the spec at > http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ but it is dense reading (unless you > enjoy words > like overconstrainment), intended more for implementors of > processors, not > writers of stylesheets. I enjoy words, but as English is not my native language and as I'm a beginner, it is better I first read something less dense :-) Many thanks again. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > DocBook Consulting > bobs@sagehill.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michèle Garoche" <michele.garoche@easyconnect.fr> > To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> > Cc: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:55 AM > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Admon graphics: customizing spaces > > > > Le 12 déc. 2005 à 18:15, Bob Stayton a écrit : > >> Unfortunately there is no way in XSLT to count the number of lines >> in tip. >> The lines are formed by the XSL-FO processor after the stylesheet >> is done, >> so the stylesheet has no information about how many lines a given tip >> element will be. >> >> You might want to study the rules of how spaces are combined in XSL- >> FO and >> use combinations of space-after and space-before, and possibly >> space-before.precedence and space-after.precedence. > Could you give me some advice on reading about this very subject, > please? > > Thanks in advance. > >> >> Bob Stayton >> Sagehill Enterprises >> DocBook Consulting >> bobs@sagehill.net >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michèle Garoche" <michele.garoche@easyconnect.fr> >> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> >> Cc: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> >> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:00 AM >> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Admon graphics: customizing spaces >> >> >> >> Le 11 déc. 2005 à 11:57, Bob Stayton a écrit : >> >>> 1. It requires customizing the template named >>> 'graphical.admonition' to >>> reset >>> those indents. They should probably be in attribute sets, if you >>> want to >>> file a feature request. 8^) >> Done. >> >>> >>> 2. I'm not sure how you defined the attribute. But an >>> xsl:attribute >>> element can contain an xsl:choose statement that can output >>> different values >>> based on the test clause. An example of such syntax can be found >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ >>> PrintTableStyles.html#table.properties >>> >>> You can use self::tip to test if the current context is a tip >>> element. >> Actually, after looking at the pdf production more in depth, I found >> that this occurs only when the tip, note, etc. contains one and >> unique line and not only inside a procedure. >> >> I've styled the admonition outer-block as follows: >> >> <!-- Style of admonitions --> >> <xsl:attribute-set name="graphical.admonition.properties"> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> </xsl:attribute-set> >> >> and normal para spacing as follows: >> >> <!-- Normal paragraph spacing --> >> <xsl:attribute-set name="normal.para.spacing"> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">0.5em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0.5em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">0.5em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="text-indent">0em</xsl:attribute> >> </xsl:attribute-set> >> >> Other paragraph space-before and space-after spacings vary from 0.8em >> to 0.6em for sections. >> List block space-before and space-after spacing are 0.4em, list item >> space-before spacing 0.3em and compact list item space-before spacing >> is 0em. >> >> On the other way, I've defined the properties related to tip, notes, >> etc as follows: >> >> <!-- For figures, procedure, example, table --> >> <xsl:attribute-set name="formal.object.properties"> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0.4em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">0.4em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">0.4em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">0.3em</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</ >> xsl:attribute> >> </xsl:attribute-set> >> >> <!-- Style of title for procedure, example, table, figures >> And space after procedure title --> >> <xsl:attribute-set name="formal.title.properties"> >> <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="font-size">10pt</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum"> >> <xsl:choose> >> <xsl:when test="self::procedure">0em</xsl:when> >> <xsl:otherwise>inherit</xsl:otherwise> >> </xsl:choose> >> </xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum"> >> <xsl:choose> >> <xsl:when test="self::procedure">0em</xsl:when> >> <xsl:otherwise>inherit</xsl:otherwise> >> </xsl:choose> >> </xsl:attribute> >> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum"> >> <xsl:choose> >> <xsl:when test="self::procedure">0em</xsl:when> >> <xsl:otherwise>inherit</xsl:otherwise> >> </xsl:choose> >> </xsl:attribute> >> </xsl:attribute-set> >> >> >> It seems that I need to count the number of lines of the tip text, >> then if there is only one line, make the space after the tip graphics >> a little more than 0em. >> >> A little too complicated for me at the moment, i.e. I have no idea >> how I can count the number of lines. >> Cheers, Michèle <http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>
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