Re: [docbook] Potential bug with paras nested in listitems

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

Hi Stefan,
The para.properties attribute set was added in version 1.77.1 of the 
stylesheets.  Formerly it was just the normal.para.spacing attribute set, 
which adds space before and after a para.  But normal.para.spacing was used 
for many elements besides para to set the spacing between block elements, so 
a new attribute set was added for just paras.

I believe originally the normal.para.spacing properties were avoided on the 
first list para because in FO processors of the time mistakenly added the 
space-before and messed up the vertical alignment between the list mark and 
the first line of text.  I don't think that is the case any more, so this 
should probably be considered a bug.  Could you file a bug report on the 
SourceForge site so it can get fixed?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Stefan Knorr" <sknorr@suse.de>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 7:37 AM
To: "DocBook List" <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [docbook] Potential bug with paras nested in listitems

Hi all,

I discovered this while trying out some attributes for paras: for the
first para inside a list-item, the "para.properties" attribute set is
not applied. (See the template at lists.xsl +311; I use the DocBook
stylesheet 1.78.0)

Would you consider this a bug or is this on purpose?