Re: [docbook-apps] <literallayout> rendered with lots of internal whitespace

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

I asked Norm about it, and this was his response:

> The problem is that addresses are verbatim, but if you put an address
> on a titlepage in a centered block, you don't want the fact that it's
> monospaced to make it left aligned.
>
> I haven't been able to think of any ideal solution.

You can't assume that an address will want text-align="start".
If you put that in the address template, then it will override
that property on the outer block that is trying to
center all the content.


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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:36:16AM +0200, Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> In the CVS (sept 18) I can see you added text-align="start" to the 
> literallayout template (in fo/verbatim.xsl)
> when not monospaced. You should properly do the same thing for address, 
> which is currently inherits the justify attribute the same way, as 
> remarked by Robert.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jens
> 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think this may be a bug in the attribute-set definitions.
> > The 'verbatim.properties' attribute set does not set
> > text-align="start", so FOP reverts to the inherited 
> > text-align="justify".  The 'monospace.verbatim.properties'
> > attribute-set uses 'verbatim.properties' and adds
> > text-align="start".
> > 
> > This seems to have been done intentionally, but I'm not
> > sure why.  I think all of the whitespace preserving
> > properties should be in these attribute-sets.
> > These would include:
> > 
> > text-align='start'
> > wrap-option='no-wrap'
> > white-space-collapse='false'
> > linefeed-treatment="preserve"
> > 
> > I'll ask Norm about it.
> > 
> 
> 
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> > 
> > Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
> > Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
> > Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
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> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
The SCO Group                               fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@sco.com