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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists
Ignore what I said about your number being a customization. I forgot about the inheritnum="inherit" attribute that produces that format. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> To: "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@capcollege.bc.ca>; <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists > Well, when I nest orderedlists, I get different formats for the numbers, > such as 1, A, i, etc. You must be using a customization to get the stacked > arabic numbers, right? > > In any case, I don't think tracking is the problem here. I think the > problem is that XEP is trying to fit the wide number into a narrow space. > The default width of the block for the number is 2em, and three digit > numbers don't fit very well. I think you need to widen the space for the > wide numbers. You can do that with a processing instruction in the nested > orderedlist: > > <orderedlist> > <?dbfo label-width="4em"?> > > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > DocBook Consulting > bobs@sagehill.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@capcollege.bc.ca> > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:43 PM > Subject: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm noticing on PDF documents with nested orderedlists the list numbers > > are looking "squished". I have included a sample PDF - please see page > > 8. Is there a parameter and / or stylesheet that can be tweaked to > > adjust this (overly) tight kerning? > > > > I am using DocBook XML V4.2, XEP and docbook-xsl-1.61.3 stylesheets. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > > > Chris Johnson > > > > Web Developer > > Capilano College > > North Vancouver, Canada > > > > 604.986.1911 ext. 3455 > > cjohnson@capcollege.bc.ca > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a post to > docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org, or visit > http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/. > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a post to docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org, or visit http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/. > > >
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