Re: [docbook-apps] Centering lines of text in FO output

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

Does it have to be a para?  The processing expectations for para are to 
flow the text into the available space, not preserve line endings.  Your 
example looks like a literallayout, where line endings are preserved.  With 
a role attribute on the literallayout you could customize the attributes in 
the 'verbatim.properties' attribute-set to add a centering property.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Catterall" <ron@catterall.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:05 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Centering lines of text in FO output


> Hi
> I have a problem which looks like it ought be general.  there may be an 
> easy way around it, but I haven't found it.
>
> Within some normal <para> text I want to center a group of lines in a PDF 
> file, e.g. I want to get output like:
>
>  This is a normal line of text from a <para> and
>  </para> piece of XML
>                    abc def
>              qwerty asdfgh zxcvbn
>                      123
>                qazwsx edc rfvt
>  This is a normal line of text from a <para> and
>  </para> piece of XML
>
> I've tried using a single column table with line height control - it 
> works, but it's a very inelegant solution, and very slow with all the 
> PIs.
>
> A better solution would be to use a <simplelist columns="1" type="vert"> 
> with each line a <member>, but how to center the lines?
>
> Am I missing something simple?  I'm using XEP.
>
> Ron
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