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RE: [docbook-apps] how to force some line spacing
- From: "Billard, Trish" <trish dot billard at hp dot com>
- To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sco dot com>,"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: "docbook apps list" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:45:44 -0700
- Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] how to force some line spacing
If you're using a CSS stylesheet (for HTML output), you can specify a margin for all ordered list items in your output:
ol li { margin-bottom: 1.5in; }
The potential drawback is that ALL ordered list items will have this margin. You won't be able to choose by list or by item using this method.
--Trish
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:21 PM
To: Robert P. J. Day
Cc: docbook apps list
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] how to force some line spacing
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 03:55:52PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> in a set of exercises (which i'm representing with a
> simple ordered list), i'd like to force some space between
> each question to give the students room to write their
> answer.
>
> what's the most elegant way to leave whatever number
> of spacing lines i want? (sometimes i'll want just a couple,
> sometimes considerably more.)
>
> any hints?
How about an literallayout with N empty lines?
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Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
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