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Re: [docbook-apps] [xsl stylesheets] reducing font size in formalparas?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:01:59 -0800
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] [xsl stylesheets] reducing font size in formalparas?
- References: <20031124202748.GB694@gizmotronics.dyndns.org>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:27:48PM +0100, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using DocBook XML/XSL to write my biology thesis, and I use
> formalparas in caprtions for the figure legends. To make them clearly
> distiguishable from the text, I have set their font to sans-serif,
> however it looks bigger than the original one.
>
> I failed to modify my customisation layer to reduce the size. Could
> any of you give me a hint?
>
>
> <xsl:param name="toto">
> <xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master * 0.8"/>
> <xsl:text>pt</xsl:text>
> </xsl:param>
>
> <!-- toto is the french foo -->
>
> <xsl:template match="formalpara/para">
> <fo:block font-family="sans-serif" font-size="$toto">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- changes the font family but not its size :(( -->
If you peek in your FO output, you will see that you are
getting the literal fontsize="$toto". That is because you
need to use the fontsize="{$toto}" syntax, which is called
an "attribute value template", to evaluate a variable
inside a literal result element.
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