Re: [docbook-apps] chapter title alignment

[Georges Schmitz <georges.schmitz@heitec.de>]

Bob Stayton schrieb:

 >Hmm, setting the text-align attribute in 'component.title.properties'
 >attribute-set works for me, and it should work for you.  If you can 
look in
 >the fo file at the block for a chapter title, see if it has some value for
 >that attribute.

Yes, you are right. After setting the 'component.title.properties'
attributes, I didn't render the document to PDF, but just looked into
the FO output - grrrr - at the wrong place.

It was the table of contents I looked at (just searching for my title
string...). But I think, I found another undesirable effect, because
'text-align-last="justify"' is set. I wondered what would happen with
very long entries in TOC spanning over more than one line and made a
short test.

Well, with FOP the line (a) breaks behind the print space of the page
numbers and (b) continues beneath section numbering:

----------------
1)  a b c .... 1
2)  c d e f .. 2
3)  g h i j k l m n
o p q ........ 3
4)  r s t .... 4  
----------------

With XEP the line break in TOC is OK, but (b) also happens. Is it
possible to fix these two issues?

Thanks so far,
Georges


 >
 >I agree that  left alignment should be the default for the section and
 >chapter titles.
 >
 >Bob Stayton
 >Sagehill Enterprises
 >DocBook Consulting
 >bobs@sagehill.net
 >
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Georges Schmitz" <georges.schmitz@heitec.de>
 >To: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
 >Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:12 AM
 >Subject: [docbook-apps] chapter title alignment
 >
 >
 >>Hi all,
 >>
 >>I don't want titles being "justified", it simply doesn't look good if
 >>longer text (in very big letters as in chapter title) is being wrapped
 >>AND justified (I never have seen books making use of it). Could not 
"left"
 >>being made the default?

...

 >>Looking into the FO output, I saw text-align-last="justify" in a
 >>relevant fo:block element, but no idea, (a) where this attribute comes
 >>from and (b) why not a simple text-align attribute is used.
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