Re: [docbook-apps] image in a long task causing PDF output to overlaptext

[Brett Leber <bleber+@cs.cmu.edu>]

On 5/19/2008 12:50 PM, Mauritz Jeanson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brett Leber 
>> I have an image in a 10-step task/procedure/step/figure 
>> (screenshot/mediaobject..) that appears to be causing PDF output to 
>> overlap text on the page containing the task. I would guess 
>> this has to 
>> do the keep-together processing instruction, but I can't seem 
>> to solve 
>> it. I tried:
>>
>> 	<?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?>
>>
>> as a child of task, procedure, step, and figure, with no 
>> visible change 
>> in the rendering.
> 
> 
> Could it be the same problem as this one?
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1843969&group_id=21
> 935&atid=373747
> 
> <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?> has no effect on task. You can work around
> this by customizing the formal.object.properties attribute-set.
> 
> For procedure, keep-together.within-column is "auto" by default (via the
> procedure.properties attribute-set).
> 
> /MJ

MJ,

This sounds like the culprit. I can't test at the moment, but if you 
don't hear from me, the solution is to "change the 
[keep-together.within-column] property in "formal.object.properties" to 
'auto' to get page-breaks" (from the bug). Hopefully that will space my 
text normally.

The solution you mention in the bug comment sounds like what I was 
trying to do.

Thanks,

Brett