Thanks for the quick reply. I see I had taken dbfo PIs to be more general than they are.
Here is a better example of my problem, taken directly from Stayton.
<sidebar>
<title>Sidebar example</title>
<?dbfo sidebar-width="2.5in" ?>
<para>A sidebar can be used to emphasise…</para>
</sidebar>
With or without the dbfo PI, the width of the sidebar remains 1in, as set by the sidebar.float.width parameter.
Best
Stephen
2008/8/22 Mauritz Jeanson <>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Taylor
>
> I can't see any evidence - in the appearance of my PDFs or in
> the intermediate FO files - that my dbfo PIs are being processed.
>
> For example, my understanding of the following (adapted from
> Stayton, DocBook XSL, 3rd edn 2005, p274)
>
> <para>Now is the time for all good men</para>
>
> <para><?dbfo background-color="#FFCCCC"?>to come to the aid
> of the party</para>
>
> is that the former para's background colour will be inherited
> and the latter's will be pink.
>
> Is there some way in which I might have disabled the
> processing of PIs?
The background-color PI applies to graphics only.
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/BGcolor.html
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/pi/dbfo_background-co
lor.html
Mauritz
