Re: [docbook-apps] itemized list, and import precedence

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 08/09/2011 11:33 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 7.8.2011 18:50, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
>> This isn't a case of import precedence, but of  different attributes.
>> In general, the qualified attributes (like  space-before.optimum) take
>> precedence over the non-qualified attributes (like  space-before). I
>> wish the DocBook XSL stylesheets had not been written using the
>> qualified attributes in some of the attribute-sets, because if you want
>> to override the space before, you need to override all three of the
>> qualified attributes for it to have any effectc.
> Is some FO processor supporting these non-qualified attributes for
> space-before/after? I don't think so. (Probably with the exception of
> xmltex which can map these directly to glues in TeX, but xmltex is not
> widely used today.) So I think we can safely remove those and just use
> value of .optimum trait as unqalified property.
>
> 			Jirka
>

+1





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