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Generally we try to maintain backwards
compatibility with previous stylesheet releases so that existing customizations
are not broken with a new release, so changing the name of it would not be
appropriate. But adding a new 'para.properties' attribute set that
includes normal.para.spacing would be.
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:08
AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] formatting
for paragraphs with xsl stylesheets
I think normal.para.properties is a better name.
normal.para.spacing seems misleading, since the attribute set can set all
sorts of different properties. Would it be too much work to change this, or
would it introduce incompatibilities?
Thanks again
Paul
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
Actually, the name of the attribute set is
'normal.para.spacing', not normal.para.properties. I used the correct
name in the paragraph but not the example. And indeed, it does
not appear in the index, an oversight I will correct in the next
edition.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:52
AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps]
formatting for paragraphs with xsl stylesheets
Thanks Bob, When I look at this page: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.76.1/doc/fo/index.htmlI
don't see the normal.para.properties attribute set at all. Is the
documentation not accurate? Paul
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
Hi Paul,
I think the normal.para.spacing attribute-set was
originally for para, but has since been used for other purposes to give
uniform spacing for several similar elements. There should be a
dedicated attribute-set for para which has a
use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing" attribute so it can use those
properties but provide an opportunity for further customization for just
para.
Looking at some of my previous
cusotmization, I have used the normal.para.properties
attribute set and add an xsl:choose to test for the para context,
something like this:
<xsl:attribute-set
name="normal.para.properties">
<xsl:attribute
name="text-indent">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="self::d:para">
para
value
</xsl:when>
</xsl:otherwise>
non-para value
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
Since attribute-sets of the same name are merged,
you will still get the spacing and add this
property.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:21
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps]
formatting for paragraphs with xsl stylesheets
It seems that the xsl stylesheets have a shortcoming
for formatting paragraphs. Whereas all other elements have an
attribute set, para does not.
In order to set formatting
properties, one has to use the section.properties attribute set. But
then titles inherit this property as well. For
example:
<xsl:attribute-set
name="section.properties">
<xsl:attribute
name="text-indent">12pt</attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set name>
Ends up indenting the title
as well. In order to get around that, I have to set the text-indent on
the title properties to 0; that seems like a clumsy workaround. In
addition, the lack of formatting for paragraphs does not allow you to
indent paragraphs in certain situations. For example, some styles
don't indent the first paragraph after a title.
The code below
is my workaround. Is there a better way? If not, I would consider
submitting a patch (in which case the code would be more sophisticated
to handle more complicated situations)
<!--indent first paragraph-->
<xsl:template
match="d:para">
<xsl:variable
name="keep.together">
<xsl:call-template
name="pi.dbfo_keep-together"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
<xsl:if test="$keep.together !=
''">
<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together.within-column">
<xsl:value-of
select="$keep.together"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if
test="preceding-sibling::d:para">
<xsl:attribute
name="text-indent">
<xsl:value-of
select="$text-indent"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template
name="anchor"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
Paul
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