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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: TOC, Itemizedlist and Apache FOP


[Moving this over to docbook-apps]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Jeroen Alblas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just started of with XSL:FO and DocBook. I hoped
> DocBook would solve my problem regarding the automated
> generation of the TOC. I have a DocBook with chapters and
> sections. First I compile the DocBook to XSL:FO using the
> docbook-xsl-1.60.1. Then I use Apache FOP 0.20.4 to compile
> the XSLFO into a PDF document. In the PDF, only the
> Chapters are automaticly numbered. The Sections do appear
> in the TOC that is automaticly generated, but without
> numbering. How do I solve this?

See
http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html#FOSectionNumbering
 
> Another thing is, that the the listitems within an
> <itemizedlist> seem to have a blank line between them. Is
> this caused by the nessary <para> tag within the <listitem>
> tag?

No, that is the default style for lists in DocBook XSL.
You can customize the 'list-item-spacing' attribute-set from
fo/param.xsl to change the default spacing. Or you could
add the spacing="compact" attribute to your itemizedlist elements
in your document.

> And last but not least... what is the optimal
> configuration at the moment to compile docbook to pdf? FOP
> still has a lot of unimplemented features and I'm not too
> enthousiastic about the layout in the PDF either...

In my experience to this point, the commericial offerings
(RenderX, Antenna House) produce the best output.  I'm
hoping FOP will catch up.

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