Re: [docbook-apps] Admonition spacing

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

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
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Oehler

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org ; 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: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
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