RE: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

Bob,

 

Yeah, I agree… 

 

My kludge was to insert an empty
paragraph after admonitions that appear within steps… now it looks fine but
there’s those silly empty elements scattered throughout…

 

Alan

 

From: Bob Stayton
[mailto:] 

Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:15 AM

To: Alan Oehler; 

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

 

A
procedure and its steps are processed as a fo:list-block and
fo:list-items.  So any note in a step is wrapped in an fo:list-body
element.  It appears that FOP and Antenna House do not respect the
space-after of the last item inside the fo:list-body.   It works
in XEP.  I think it should respect that space-after, since a list-item is
a normal block area, not a reference area like a table cell.

 

Bob
Stayton

Sagehill Enterprises



 

 

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Original Message ----- 

From: Alan Oehler 

To: 
; Alan
Oehler 

Sent: Tuesday, August 26,
2008 9:58 AM

Subject: RE: [docbook-apps]
Admonition spacing

 

Ooops, small correction: not the
nongraphical admonitions title, the nongraphical admonition block itself…

alan

 

From: Alan Oehler 

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:53 AM

To: 

Subject: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

 

Hi again…

 

I have customized the nongraphical admonitions title with
space-before and space-after attributes:

 

<fo:block            

         
space-before.minimum="2.2em"

         
space-before.optimum="2.5em"

         
space-before.maximum="2.7em"

         
space-after.minimum="2.2em"

         
space-after.optimum="2.5em"

         
space-after.maximum="2.7em”

          …

 

 

 

This spacing appears to come out perfectly when the
admonition occurs between ordinary paragraphs within a section. However, when
they are within a step element within a procedure element, there is very little
space after, just the ordinary space that occurs between one step and the next.

 

How come this doesn’t work? Does the space between steps
override any space-after settings of the last object within the step element?

 

Thanks…

Alan

 

Alan C. Oehler

Sr. Technical Writer

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Virtualization & Management
Division