Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Centering an equation

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:36:03PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> I can't believe I'm about to reply to myself again...
> 
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:16:24PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:37:06PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> > 
> > > Is this a stylesheet bug, or, more likely, am I doing something
> > > obviously wrong here?  As a followup question, is there a way to get
> > > the stylesheets to insert some top-padding above the included image as
> > > well?  Centred or not, it sits right up under the preceding line of
> > > text.
> > 
> > I suspect this is the answer to my question:
> > 
> >   | 2002-12-17  Robert Stayton <bobstayton@users.sourceforge.net>
> >   | 
> >   | 	* common.xsl: Changed selection of mediaobject to be more
> >   | 	  consistent using a separate select.mediaobject.index
> >   | 	  template. Also added text-align to block containing
> >   | 	  external-graphic in fo output.
> > 
> > So I guess I should upgrade and try again.  :-)
> 
> Just tried 1.59.0.  This minimal input:
> 
> -------
> <book>
>   <chapter>
>     <title>Using <application>&am;</application></title>
>     <sect1>
>       <title>General</title>
>       <para>Some text.</para>
>       <equation>
>         <mediaobject>
>           <imageobject>
>             <imagedata format="EPS" fileref="../images/eqn1.eps"
>             align="center"/>
>           </imageobject>
>         </mediaobject>
>       </equation>
>     </sect1>
>   </chapter>
> </book>
> -------
> 
> still puts 'text-align="center"' in <fo:external-graphic> rather than
> <fo:block>.  Bob, can you offer any insight?

Ah, yes, it turns out that a mediaobject inside an equation
element is handled in a separate template in fo/math.xsl.
That template needs to be updated as well to put the
align attribute on the fo:block.

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