Re: [docbook] keep together results in exception

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Karsten,
Docbook's default settings are chosen based on what the stylesheets 
author's think would best serve the most users.  Keeping the titled blocks 
(figure, examples, table) together is a common practice and generally good 
for the reader.  But as you noticed, it is not possible for the defaults to 
satisfy everyone, so the stylesheets are designed to be customized, and are 
expected to be customized.

It is unlikely that we will set the defaults to accomodate an unfinished FO 
processor, when there may be a workaround that can be used until it is 
finished.  Have you tried turning off the automatic keeps for formal 
objects with something like this:

<xsl:attribute-set name="formal.object.properties">
  <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">auto</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karsten Ohme" <widerstand@t-online.de>
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: [docbook] keep together results in exception


> Hello
>
> Why is always keep together assumed for some kind of block? This is
> causing troubles, because if an example does not fit on a page fop
> 0.92beta throws an exception, that the content does not fit on the page.
> Why is it necessary to override it?
>
> Wouldn't it be more user friendly, to prevent such exceptions and set it
> by default to auto?
>
> Regards, Karsten
>
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