[docbook-apps] keep-together and blockquotes

[Ron Catterall]

Title: keep-together and blockquotes

Just by chance I have a blockquote in which a page break occurs between the quotation and the attribution.  This simply looks bad. I have tried using <?dbfo keep-together="always"?> after the <blockquote>, but it doesn't have any effect.

<blockquote><?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

<attribution>A. N. Author, <citetitle>A Title</citetitle></attribution>

<para>Some long quotation here extending over several lines</para>

</blockquote>

I could use a hard page-break before the <blockquote>, but I'd rather not do that - some day it will turn around and bite me!  For a similar reason I don't like to use a soft page break, <?dbfo-need height="1.5in"?> before the blockquote, suppose I later change the line spacing in the document!

Is there any way I can use 'keep-together' to force the quote and attribution to keep to the same page?

I have tried to customize blockquote in fo/block.xsl, but it doesn't work, what am I doing wrong?

<xsl:template match="blockquote">

<!-- this variable added -->
  <xsl:variable name="keep.together">
    <xsl:call-template name="dbfo-attribute">
      <xsl:with-param name="pis"
                      select="processing-instruction('dbfo')"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="attribute" select="'keep-together'"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:variable>
<!--  -->

  <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">
    <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
    <fo:block>

<!-- this test added -->
      <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
        <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">
          <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>
<!--  -->

      <xsl:if test="title">
        <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="formal.title.properties">
          <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="object.title.markup"/>
        </fo:block>
      </xsl:if>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name(.) != 'title'
                                   and local-name(.) != 'attribution']"/>
    </fo:block>
    <xsl:if test="attribution">

      <fo:block text-align="right">

        <xsl:text>&#x2014;</xsl:text>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="attribution"/>
      </fo:block>
    </xsl:if>
  </fo:block>
</xsl:template>

Ron

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Ron Catterall, Phd, DSc                         email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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