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

[Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>]

Thanks Bob, that worked perfectly.
Ron

>
>That property really ought to be in the attribute-set so it can be 
>more easily changed.
>
sometime, maybe!

>Hi Ron,
>I was suggesting that a role attribute on literallayout could be used:
>
><literallayout role="SpecialStuff">
>line 1
>a longer line 2
></literallayout>
>
>and the stylesheet customization would look like this:
>
><xsl:attribute-set name="verbatim.properties">
>  <xsl:attribute name="text-align">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="@role = 'SpecialStuff'">center</xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>start</xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>  </xsl:attribute>
></xsl:attribute-set>
>
>That should have been sufficient, but it didn't work when I tried 
>it. Further investigation showed that the template that matches 
>literallayout adds its own text-align="start" property to the 
>fo:block, which overrides the attribute-set.  Ugh.
>
>So you have to also customize the template with 
>match="literallayout" from fo/verbatim.xsl to remove its text-align 
>property so the attribute-set can work.
>
>        <xsl:otherwise>
>          <fo:block id="{$id}"
>                    wrap-option='no-wrap'
>                    white-space-collapse='false'
>                    white-space-treatment='preserve'
>              =>    text-align='start'
>                    linefeed-treatment="preserve"
>                    xsl:use-attribute-sets="verbatim.properties">
>            <xsl:copy-of select="$content"/>
>          </fo:block>
>        </xsl:otherwise>
>
>That property really ought to be in the attribute-set so it can be 
>more easily changed.
>
>Bob Stayton
>Sagehill Enterprises
>DocBook Consulting
>bobs@sagehill.net

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