Re: [docbook-apps] Strange behaviour for nested, ordered lists?

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Whitlatch" <swhitlat@getnet.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Derek Hohls" <DHohls@csir.co.za>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Strange behaviour for nested, ordered lists?

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> Anyone know how to cause lists to be indented from the column margin?
>
> That would be:
>
>    text . . .
>    text . . .
>    text . . .
>    text . . .
>    text . . .
>    text . . .
>        listitem_text . . .
>        listitem_text . . .
>           nested_list_item_text . . .
>           nested_list_item_text . . .
>           nested_list_item_text . . .
>        listitem_text . . . .
>        listitem_text . . . .
>    text . . . .
>    text . . . .

A customization such as the following would do it.  It creates a wrapper
fo:block with a margin-left property, and then uses apply-imports to
use the regular templates for formatting the list inside the block.  The
test for
an ancestor list is done to avoid applying the
indent to nested lists, which are already indented by the containing list.
Otherwise they would get both indents.

<xsl:template match="orderedlist|itemizedlist">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="not(ancestor::itemizedlist or ancestor::orderedlist)">
      <fo:block margin-left="0.25in">
        <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </fo:block>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:apply-imports/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net