Re: [docbook-apps] Caption spacing in mediaobject

[Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>]

Thanks! Removing the <para> wrapper helped a lot.

Tav

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 01:39 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi,
> You could do two things:
> 
> 1.  Remove the para wrapper in the caption. A caption doesn't require a 
> para to contain its text, and the para uses the normal.para.spacing 
> attribute-set that adds extra space.
> 
> 2.  Customize the template that handles caption, from fo/graphics.xsl:
> 
> <xsl:template match="caption">
>   <fo:block>
>     <xsl:if test="@align = 'right' or @align = 'left' or @align='center'">
>       <xsl:attribute name="text-align"><xsl:value-of
>                          select="@align"/></xsl:attribute>
>     </xsl:if>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> You can add spacing properties to the fo:block element.  There really ought 
> to be a caption.properties attribute-set, if you care to file a feature 
> request on the DocBook SourceForge site.  8^)
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@free.fr>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:04 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Caption spacing in mediaobject
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I control the spacing between an imageobject and a caption in
> > PDF output? The default spacing puts a caption closer to a following
> > figure than to the figure it belongs to. Also, is there a way to keep
> > the image and caption on the same page? I see some reference that FOP
> > 0.93 supports keeps but don't understand how they work.
> >
> > This is an example of what I have in my source file:
> >
> >  <mediaobject>
> >   <imageobject>
> >    <imagedata fileref="test.png" format="PNG" align="center"/>
> >   </imageobject>
> >   <textobject>
> >    <phrase>Test</phrase>
> >   </textobject>
> >   <caption>
> >    <para>
> >     The caption.
> >    </para>
> >   </caption>
> >  </mediaobject>
> >  <mediaobject>
> >   ...
> >
> > I am using FOP SVN and docbook-xsl-snapshot.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tav
> >
> >
> >
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