Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Wrap text around images in PDFs, using xsl:fo

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:11:39AM -0500, Jeff Beal wrote:
> Oh.  In that case, I think you can quite legitimately point fingers at both
> DocBook and FOP.  I just checked FOP's website, and they do not suppor the
> <fo:float/> formatting object.  However, there's also nothing in the DocBook
> DTD or in Norm's stylesheets to output an <fo:float/>.  It certainly seems
> that with your particular tool chain, floats are at the moment impossible.
> 
> If you were to switch FO formatters, I could envision a stylesheet
> customization along the lines of
> 
> <xsl:template match="inlinemediaobject[@role='floatleft']">
>  <fo:float float="left">
>   <xsl:apply-imports/>
>  </fo:float>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> that would work.  For now, though, there's nothing in DocBook to support
> floating images. (It might make a nice RFE, though.)

Actually, the DocBook Technical Committee approved
RFE 615473 on 19 November 2002 to extend 'float' in
the DTD.  In 4.2, there is just a 'float = yes|no'
attribute on figure.  We added a 'floatstyle' attribute to figure,
example, table, and equation, of type CDATA with the
documentation saying that it is expected to be a
keyword that a stylesheet could act upon.
Once that change is released in a new DTD version,
the stylesheets can be modified to work with it.


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