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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: My ordered lists have extra space between lines.
Bob,
I tested your html in IE and Mozilla and it didn't seem to work.
I think the html should probably look like this:
<div class="orderedlist">
<ol type="1" compact>
<li>item 1</li>
<li>item 2</li>
<li>item 3</li>
</ol>
</div>
I put up the html for four orderedlists here:
http://concord.org/~stephen/orderedlist.html
The first one uses your method, the second is the one above, the third is the same without the compact attribute, the fourth is what is produced by the docbook stylesheets except that I have removed the trailing </p>. That doesn't seem to help.
At 10:40 AM -0800 3/21/02, Bob Stayton wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:04:22PM -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>> My ordered lists have extra space between lines.
>>
>> The problem below happens in both html and in fo->fop->pdf.
>>
>> using docbook-xsl-1.50.0 (and older versions)
>>
>> <orderedlist numeration="arabic" spacing="compact">
>> <listitem><para>item 1</para></listitem>
>> <listitem><para>item 2</para></listitem>
>> <listitem><para>item 3</para></listitem>
>> </orderedlist>
>>
>> produces html like this:
>>
>> <div class="orderedlist">
>> <ol type="1" compact="">
>> <li>
>> <p>item 1</p>
>> </li>
>> <li>
>> <p>item 2</p>
>> </li>
>> <li>
>> <p>item 3</p>
>> </li>
>> </ol>
>> </div>
>>
>> Which produces output like this:
>>
>> 1. item 1
>>
>> 2. item 2
>>
>> 3. item 3
>>
>> There are two problems. The obvious one is the <p>
>> wrapped around the list content produces an extra blank
>> line between list items. The result is the same with the
>> orderedlist spacing set to normal.
>>
>> The content in the docbook listitem needs to be wrapped
>> in something since the listitem can't be PCDATA. Is there
>> something else I can wrap my docbook items in that won't
>> produce the extra spacing produced with <para>?
>>
>> Also according to the html4.0 spec the attribute compact
>> should be rendered as either: [compact] or
>> [compact="compact"]. However they warn that many browsers
>> only interpret the simpler form.
>
>For HTML output,
>I've never found the 'compact' list option to be
>reliably supported in the browsers.
>
>I have some clues, but not a complete answer.
>The problem is actually with the closing </p> at
>the end of each list item. If you remove that, the
>space disappears. Apparently the browsers figure
>if you have a closing </p> then you intended space.
>But that's not an option using the XSL stylesheets.
>
>A margin style seems to work as well, by assigning a
>class="compact" to those paras inside such lists:
>
><html>
><head>
><style type="text/css">
> p.compact {margin-bottom: 0;}
></style>
></head>
>...
> <div class="orderedlist">
> <ol type="1" compact="">
> <li>
> <p class="compact">item 1</p>
> </li>
> <li>
> <p class="compact">item 2</p>
> </li>
> <li>
> <p class="compact">item 3</p>
> </li>
> </ol>
> </div>
>
>You'll have to customize the stylesheet to get
>that class attribute added to para's inside lists
>with spacing="compact".
>
>Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
>Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060
>Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796
>Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887
> email: bobs@caldera.com
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-s
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