Re: [docbook-apps] No indent on the first paragraph of a page

[Richard Hamilton]

Hi Peter,

I suspect that this is going to be very difficult, if not impossible, because 
pagination happens in the FO processor, and the stylesheets don’t know where 
the FO processor will do page breaks. Therefore, the stylesheets can’t identify 
which paragraphs will appear at the top of a page.

I don’t keep up with the latest in FO processing, so there may be a way that 
I’m unaware of to code this as an option with one of the commercial processors 
(XEP or Antenna House), but I doubt there’s a way to do this with FOP.

Also, are you sure you want to do this in this way? The more common variable 
style that I’ve seen is where you indent the second and subsequent paragraphs 
in a chapter or after a heading, but you don’t indent the first paragraph. That 
is much easier to implement, because all the information you need is available 
to the stylesheets. In fact, a few years ago, Jirka Kosek provided some code to 
do just that. Here is a link to the mailing list entry about this, but be aware 
that this is nearly 14 years old, so I wouldn’t just drop it into the current 
code without doing some testing:-).

https://cygwin.com/ml/docbook-apps/2004-q2/msg00105.html

Best regards,
Dick Hamilton
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> On Dec 4, 2017, at 02:44, Peter Fleck  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following code that indents the first line of paragraphs:
> 
>  match="d:*/d:para[preceding-sibling::d:para]|d:para[contains(@role,'indent')]">
>   
> 
>   
> 
> 
> Is there a way to not indent the paragraph if it is the first paragraph of a 
> page?
> 
> Using:
> 
> Apache FOP 2.2
> Docbook 5.1
> Stylesheets 1.79.2
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter


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[docbook-apps] No indent on the first paragraph of a page

[Peter Fleck]

Hi,

I have the following code that indents the first line of paragraphs:


  

  


Is there a way to not indent the paragraph if it is the first paragraph
of a page?

Using:

Apache FOP 2.2
Docbook 5.1
Stylesheets 1.79.2

Thanks,

Peter