Does it have to be a para? The processing expectations for para are to
flow the text into the available space, not preserve line endings. Your
example looks like a literallayout, where line endings are preserved. With
a role attribute on the literallayout you could customize the attributes in
the 'verbatim.properties' attribute-set to add a centering property.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Catterall" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:05 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Centering lines of text in FO output
> Hi
> I have a problem which looks like it ought be general. there may be an
> easy way around it, but I haven't found it.
>
> Within some normal <para> text I want to center a group of lines in a PDF
> file, e.g. I want to get output like:
>
> This is a normal line of text from a <para> and
> </para> piece of XML
> abc def
> qwerty asdfgh zxcvbn
> 123
> qazwsx edc rfvt
> This is a normal line of text from a <para> and
> </para> piece of XML
>
> I've tried using a single column table with line height control - it
> works, but it's a very inelegant solution, and very slow with all the
> PIs.
>
> A better solution would be to use a <simplelist columns="1" type="vert">
> with each line a <member>, but how to center the lines?
>
> Am I missing something simple? I'm using XEP.
>
> Ron
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