Re: [docbook-apps] <bridgehead> "renderas" attribute doesn't seem to do the right thing

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:45:29PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   in my quest for flexible exercises, i decided to use a <bridgehead>
> and use the "renderas" attribute to have a free-floating header with
> whatever font size i wanted.
> 
>   first, i used the attribute-set "section.title.level1.properties"
> to set the font size for level 1 titles to 24pt.  that worked fine,
> the resulting PDF has massive titles for level-1 sections.
> 
>   but when i threw in a 
> 
>   <bridgehead renderas="sect1">Exercises</bridgehead>
> 
> that title was rendered in what looks like 16pt -- definitely
> smaller than the font being used for section 1 titles.
> 
>   isn't that the whole point of the "renderas" attribute?  am i
> missing something here?

No, this was a bug in the stylesheets.  Fixed in
CVS in fo/sections.xsl and html/sections.xsl.

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