Thanks, I got the figure title centered nicely and have spent most of the day changing (and sometimes changing back) a variety of other formats.
Now I'm working on getting the productnumber (inside bookinfo) to print in the footer. Thanks again for all the help. clark -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:32 AM To: Clark Karr Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] Centering figure captions horizontally on page Clark Karr wrote: > > You're correct that XXE displays the captions and images centered, but when > I convert the document to pdf only the image is centered (via the align > attribute). So, I end up with the caption left justified and the image > centered. > > It's hard to believe captions can't be centered; I hope it's just ignorance > on my part. I can't find anything in the docbook documentation and was > hoping you'd be able to help. > > In many ways, I like the XXE screen format better than that generated for > pdf. > Centering the title of the figure in the generated PDF can be done by customizing the corresponding DocBook XSL style sheet. More precisely you need to add: <xsl:attribute name="text-align">center</xsl:attribute> to the formal.title.properties attribute set: <xsl:attribute-set name="formal.title.properties" use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing"> <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="font-size"> <xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master * 1.2"></xsl:value-of> <xsl:text>pt</xsl:text> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">0.4em</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">0.6em</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">0.8em</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> More info. in http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/index.html Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this from XMLmind XML Editor, but if you want, you can directly edit XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/xsl/fo/param.xsl (For DocBook 5, you'll have to edit XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook5/xsl/fo/param.xsl)
