Daniel Dekany wrote: > > Also, the CSS margin collapsing bug is fixed. Great! Such a relief for > everyone who write custom CSS-es and care if the result looks ugly. > > So now that it's fixed, I think a few improvements could be done on > the built-in DocBook CSS. As you (XXE developers) seem to be often > unwilling to improve stuff that can be improved with customization, > I'm even offering you to do it myself for free and send the diff, if > that helps to move things forward. So, a few possible and otherwise > trivial improvements: > > - listitems could have 1.33ex margin-top and margin-bottom; this is > how list items are typically rendered. (XXE currently and also > in earlier version renders it like if it would have spacing="compact". > I guess because with the CSS bug it was difficult to solve normal > spacing. Now it's easy to do.) > > - Implementing spacing="compact" is now far easier, so it could be > done without creating big mess in the CSS. I think that every user > who uses it keep reinventing it in its own customization, which then > doesn't make sense really. And those who don't use spacing="compact" > are simply not affected. > > - Now that the margins of title-s collapse with the margin of the > previous p, you have lost 1.33ex vertical space before titles (as > you have exploited the bug). So now it's not very nice. 1.33ex > should be added to their top margins. > > - And... unrelated to the CSS bug, but that html > head > title CSS > formatting... Could that be fixed? In fact, the whole head should > shown with non-white background; that's what shows its meaning. > > Yes, yes, I know, I can create my customization etc... But a better > out-of-the-box config is just better. >
Thank you for your offer, but we'll not implement the changes you suggest. This is not a question of amount of work. For now, we are simply not convinced that such changes are really needed. Currently, the CSS style sheets bundled with XXE indeed shows you the document in a compact way (compact lists, more generally not much vertical margins, "line-height:normal;", etc). We agree that you'll never find this in a printed book. Personally you prefer something ``more spaceful'' and we understand that very well. Therefore we encourage you to implement your own customization of the CSS style sheet. This is really not difficult and there is a way to do so that will ``survive XXE upgrades''. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html
