Re: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

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

A procedure and its steps are processed as a fo:list-block and fo:list-items.  So any note in a step is wrapped in an fo:list-body element.  It appears that FOP and Antenna House do not respect the space-after of the last item inside the fo:list-body.   It works in XEP.  I think it should respect that space-after, since a list-item is a normal block area, not a reference area like a table cell.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Oehler

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org ; Alan Oehler

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:58 AM

Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

Ooops, small correction: not the nongraphical admonitions title, the nongraphical admonition block itself…

alan

 

From: Alan Oehler
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:53 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

 

Hi again…

 

I have customized the nongraphical admonitions title with space-before and space-after attributes:

 

<fo:block            

          space-before.minimum="2.2em"

          space-before.optimum="2.5em"

          space-before.maximum="2.7em"

          space-after.minimum="2.2em"

          space-after.optimum="2.5em"

          space-after.maximum="2.7em”

          …

 

 

 

This spacing appears to come out perfectly when the admonition occurs between ordinary paragraphs within a section. However, when they are within a step element within a procedure element, there is very little space after, just the ordinary space that occurs between one step and the next.

 

How come this doesn’t work? Does the space between steps override any space-after settings of the last object within the step element?

 

Thanks…

Alan

 

Alan C. Oehler

Sr. Technical Writer

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Virtualization & Management Division