It seems that the xsl stylesheets have a shortcoming for formatting
paragraphs. Whereas all other elements have an attribute set, para does
not.
In order to set formatting properties, one has to use the
section.properties attribute set. But then titles inherit this property as
well. For example:
<xsl:attribute-set name="section.properties">
<xsl:attribute name="text-indent">12pt</attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set name>
Ends up indenting the title as well. In order to get around that, I have to
set the text-indent on the title properties to 0; that seems like a clumsy
workaround. In addition, the lack of formatting for paragraphs does not
allow you to indent paragraphs in certain situations. For example, some
styles don't indent the first paragraph after a title.
The code below is my workaround. Is there a better way? If not, I would
consider submitting a patch (in which case the code would be more
sophisticated to handle more complicated situations)
<!--indent first paragraph-->
<xsl:template match="d:para">
<xsl:variable name="keep.together">
<xsl:call-template name="pi.dbfo_keep-together"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
<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="preceding-sibling::d:para">
<xsl:attribute name="text-indent">
<xsl:value-of select="$text-indent"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
Paul
