Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Placement of 'id' attribute in FO output forglossentry elements

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:03:04PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using XSL stylesheets version 1.60.0 and XEP to render FO to PDF
> (in fact, via PostScript and then ps2pdf).  When I place a glossentry
> in a glossary, the generated FO output includes the 'id' attribute in
> the fo:list-item element.  I have noticed that this causes Acrobat
> Reader (under Unix and Windows) to occasionally jump to a location
> slightly above or below (by a few lines) the actual glossary entry
> label.  While it is quite conceivable that this bug is being
> introduced by XEP or ps2pdf, I noticed that hand-moving the 'id'
> attribute to the fo:block element directly surrounding the text of the
> label alleviates the problem.

Does it jump consistently to the same bad location, or do
repeated jumps to the same location produce different
results? Are some glossentries better than others?

> Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?  Is there a good reason for
> putting the 'id' attribute in the fo:list-item element rather than the
> fo:block?  I suspect it shouldn't make a difference -- can anyone
> suggest why it does?

IMHO, it should not make a difference, but obviously it does.
I have no idea why.

Both glossentry and glossterm accept id attributes,
so that is why the glossentry id is on the fo:list-item.
I'm not sure it is a good idea to transfer the id from
glossentry to the fo:block for glossterm.

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