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Re: [docbook-apps] unexpected default formatting for some elements
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:57:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] unexpected default formatting for some elements
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309021717110.10413-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:22:51PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> some of this may have been fixed by the latest release of
> the stylesheets (which i have yet to install), but i'm writing
> a short document demonstrating some of the more common DB
> markup, and generating PDF using some fairly generic formatting
> produces some weird results in a few cases:
>
> 1) an epigraph with no attribution still produces a "--" on
> the next line, as if in preparation for the expected
> attribution (which isn't there)
This is fixed in the latest (1.62.0) stylesheets.
> 2) a literallayout with 'linenumbering="numbered"' does not,
> in fact, do any line numbering.
Line numbering requires an XSLT extension function,
which is only available with Saxon or Xalan at this time.
See:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AnnotateListing.html#LineNumbering
> 3) in a <variablelist> with a <varlistentry> with more than
> one <term>, the rendering of that entry is broken over a
> page and, well, thoroughly messed up (the first term seems
> to have gone missing)
I'll bet you are using FOP and your <term> elements
have a font change, right? That's a FOP bug,
something about nested fo:inline elements.
It should work if you remove the markup that changes
the font.
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