You might add your voice to RenderX to fix this long standing problem. This was
reported to RenderX in 2005 and their response was "This is a limitation of XEP and it
isn't likely to change in the nearest time." Well, it is no longer the "nearest
time", so it is time this problem was fixed. It makes XEP unusable for multi-column
layouts with spans.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "honyk" <[email protected]>
To: "'DocBook Apps'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:44 PM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] [XSL-FO] Detection of the first index.div
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
>
>
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