Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to indent text in text output -- SOLVED

[Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>]

Hi Matt,

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 08:36, Matt Dew <marcoz@osource.org> wrote:
>  Woohoo! I figured it out. solution below.
>
> <snip>
>>>
>>> Here’s my xsl file:
>>> [snip]
>>
>> I don’t see any indentation here; there’s just a newline within the
>> ‘xsl:text’ element.  BTW, you don’t need to declare the ‘fo’ namespace
>> unless you’re using it.
>
> Oops.  Copy and paste error.  Sorry about that.  Thanks on the 'fo'. I've
> removed it.

Ah, okay.

> [snip]
>
>> 3. CSS: set the ‘para.propagates.style’ parameter to ‘1’ so that the
>> resultant HTML paragraphs have ‘box’ for their class names, then add
>> whatever indentation or other styling you’d like to your CSS, such as:
>>
>>     .box { margin-left: 0.5em; }
>
> For html output I do #3 already. and yes, it works quite well. :)
>
> Yes, the whitespace was being collapsed.  <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">  was what I needed to do.
>
>
> Here's my entire xls file:
>
> ------
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:import
> href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="para[@role = 'box']">
> <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;</xsl:text>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;br&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ------
>
>
> I've been trying to figure that out for, well, longer than I want to admit.

Happens to me practically every day.

> Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!

Glad I could help. :-) There’s something I don’t understand, though:
you say that you already do #3 for HTML output; why not do it for
XHTML as well? :-S Why do it this way? (Also, if you’re producing
XHTML, you probably want to close that ‘br’.)

BTW, as I said in the previous mail, you don’t need to make every
space a non-breaking space (and in fact, that can have unfortunate
consequences if you put too many of them on one line).  Just changing
every other space would do.

Aankhen