RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: <procedure> - Getting Extra Line in <step>

[David Cramer <dcramer@broadjump.com>]

For the xsls, this may be related to a (different) bug. As I recall,
this only shows up in FOP. There' s a fix/workaround posted with the bug
at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=556275&group_id
=21935&atid=373747

See also the thread that ends here:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2002-q2/msg00493.html

David

-----Original Message-----
From:	Andy Jewell
Sent:	Wed 7/24/2002 9:44 AM
To:	Docbook
Cc:	
Subject:	DOCBOOK-APPS: <procedure> - Getting Extra Line in <step>

Hi. . .  I'm having the same problem reported by David Cramer in the
docbook-apps archive
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200107/msg00229.html)
.
That problem is that in both FO and RTF I get an extra line in each
<step>.  A snippet from his post that is my exact problem, is this:
-----
<procedure>
       <title>Scary Procedure</title>
       <step>
             <para>
               I'm on the first step, Johnny.
             </para>
       </step>
       <step>
             <para>
               I'm on the second step, Johnny.
             </para>
       </step>
</procedure>
-----
Generates this:
-----
Scary Procedure

1.

 I'm on the first step, Johnny.

2.

 I'm on the second step, Johnny.
-----
In the above post, the fix was described as adding list item spacing to
the step template.  My fo\lists.xsl (v.1.50.0 - does the same thing,
incidently, in xsl-1.51.1/1.52.2 and dsssl-1.76/1.77) already has
list.item.spacing:
<xsl:template match="step">
  <xsl:variable name="id"><xsl:call-template
name="object.id"/></xsl:variable>
  <fo:list-item>
    <fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
      <fo:block id="{$id}" xsl:use-attribute-sets="list.item.spacing">
        <!-- dwc: fix for one step procedures. Use a bullet if there's
no step 2 -->
        <xsl:choose>

I saw an item on DPawson's FAQ regarding indexterms and whitespace
issues so I've tried closing up every bit of white space (e.g.,
<step><para>text</para></step) and I still get the same result.

This is my last obstacle for our basic docbook implementation and I'm
afraid because of my limited knowledge, the only solution I'll have is
change the procedures to orderedlists.  Does anyone have any idea of
what could be causing the extra line in these steps?  I'd much rather
use the <procedure> tags but just don't have the experience to know how
to fix this.  Hope you can help!


-- Andy

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