Hi Bob, thanks for your deep investigation of this issue. Yes, in my case XEP is used. Ok, I'll try to live with this limitation.
Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:26 PM > To: honyk; 'DocBook Apps' > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] [XSL-FO] Detection of the first index.div > > Hi Jan, > You should not have to do anything. The XSL-FO spec defines the two > column areas > after a span to be new reference areas, so that any space-before > property on the first > block in each column should be ignored, in both columns. > > I just ran a brief test, and it seems FOP 1.0 and Antenna House format > this correctly. > The XEP processor does not. It does not treat the columns as reference > areas, so the > indexdiv title has space-before applied, and the first index entry > after the column > break has no such property so it starts higher relative to the indexdiv > title in the > left column. So I presume you are using XEP? > > You are correct that determining the first indexdiv is not easy because > it depends on > the collection of indexterms in each document. I don't think it can be > done with an > xsl:choose in an attribute-set. > > As an alternative approach, I tried setting space-after="0pt" and > space-after.precedence="force" on the spanned title block to try to > overcome the > space-before on the indexdiv, but it had no effect in XEP. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [email protected] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "honyk" <[email protected]> > To: "'DocBook Apps'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:39 AM > Subject: [docbook-apps] [XSL-FO] Detection of the first index.div > > > > Dear All, > > > > in my customization layer I have two-column index preceded with the > title > > that is spread over both columns (block span="all"). > > > > Now I want to achieve both columns starting at the same vertical > position. > > As there is a space-before specified on the index.div title and > because > > there is the above mentioned block before, the first index.div > title's > > space-before is retained. It looks a bit weird as this column starts > lower > > than the second one. > > > > If I could detect the first index.div somehow, I would create a > condition > > for space-before attribute accordingly (set it to zero). But looking > into > > the code it seems to be quite tricky as these divs are generated on > the fly. > > Moreover, the first div is processed differently if index entries > start with > > special characters. > > > > Is there any way to get the div 'position' (index)? > > > > Are there other methods how to suppress that space before? > > > > Thanks, > > Jan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > open.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
