Re: [docbook-apps] Formatting an Inline Graphic in a List

Yes, the relative-align property is what you need here, and it is 
unfortunate that FOP does not yet support it. I don't know of a solution 
that works with FOP.  You might need to go with a different XSL-FO 
processor.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Fischmann" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:14 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Formatting an Inline Graphic in a List


> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty getting an inline graphic to render nicely in the
> first line of a list when generating a PDF through FOP 0.95. The graphic 
> is
> slightly higher than the font height, so I get something akin to this 
> ASCII
> art example:
>
> 1. Everything is going fine
>
> 2.                     -
>   My graphic is here |_|, see what I mean?
>
> 3. Back to normal
>
> I read http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/InlineGraphics.html, but there 
> are
> some listitems that contain graphics that aren't inlined, so
> line-stacking-strategy can't be set to font-height.
>
> I think that I want to align the base of the the <fo:list-item-label> to 
> the
> base of the first line of the <fo:list-item-body> (that seems the most
> sensical to me in all use cases I could consider). The correct solution
> seemed to be setting relative-align="baseline" in <fo:list-item>
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/xslspec.html#relative-align),
> but that didn't work... Then I saw FOP doesn't support it
> (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-property-relative-alig
> n).
>
> Am I barking up the wrong tree and is there a more appropriate solution I
> may have missed?
>
> Thanks for any help or references,
>
> Sam Fischmann
>
>
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