Re: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists

Ignore what I said about your number being a customization.  I forgot about
the inheritnum="inherit" attribute that produces that format.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <>
To: "Chris Johnson" <>;
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists


> Well, when I nest orderedlists, I get different formats for the numbers,
> such as 1, A, i, etc.  You must be using a customization to get the
stacked
> arabic numbers, right?
>
> In any case, I don't think tracking is the problem here.  I think the
> problem is that XEP is trying to fit the wide number into a narrow space.
> The default width of the block for the number is 2em, and three digit
> numbers don't fit very well.  I think you need to widen the space for the
> wide numbers.  You can do that with a processing instruction in the nested
> orderedlist:
>
> <orderedlist>
> <?dbfo label-width="4em"?>
>
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> 
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Johnson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:43 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] kerning / tracking on nested ordered lists
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm noticing on PDF documents with nested orderedlists the list numbers
> > are looking "squished". I have included a sample PDF - please see page
> > 8. Is there a parameter and / or stylesheet that can be tweaked to
> > adjust this (overly) tight kerning?
> >
> > I am using DocBook XML V4.2, XEP and docbook-xsl-1.61.3 stylesheets.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > Chris Johnson
> >
> > Web Developer
> > Capilano College
> > North Vancouver, Canada
> >
> > 604.986.1911 ext. 3455
> > 
> >
>
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