Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: sapcing before image

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:55:19PM +0000, ~ion~ wrote:
> How can I impose spacing before images in print output?
> 
> I know I need the FO to be:
> 
> <fo:external-graphic space-before.optimum="0.5cm" src="images/blah.png" 
>  width="auto" height="auto" content-width="auto" content-height="auto"  
>  text-align="center"/>
> 
> But I don't know how to put this into my customisation layer, if
> I see an example of how to do this it should help me apply the
> example to other things I want to do as well.

Here is one way to do this:

<xsl:template match="mediaobject[not(ancestor::figure)]/imageobject/imagedata">
    <fo:block space-before.optimum="0.5cm">
        <xsl:apply-imports/>
    </fo:block>
</xsl:template>

This wraps a fo:block around the normal output of imagedata
(the fo:external-graphic), and the space-above is
specified in that block.

This template will apply to all imagedata graphics in a mediaobject
(but not an inlinemediaobject), and excludes any
mediaobjects inside a figure (would put too much space between
title and graphic).

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