Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: 'pgwide' attribute in 'figure' element as a child of'glossdef'

["Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh at logicsquad dot net>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:44:44AM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:23:35AM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> > I have some glossary entries where I want to include figures as part
> > of the 'glossdef'.  Some of the images are a little wide, so I have
> > used 'pgwide="1"' as an attribute of the 'figure' element.  The
> > figures are not, however, being centred within the page, but remain
> > centred within the blocks that compose the text of the 'glossdef'.
> > I've glanced over formal.xsl, and 'pgwide="1"' should induce a
> > 'span="all"' attribute on the fo:block in question.  This isn't
> > happening when the 'figure' is a child of 'glossdef' -- in fact, I
> > can't find a single 'span' attribute anywhere in the resulting FO
> > file.
> > 
> > Am I missing something here, or is this a bug?
> 
> Well, looking at the templates, the pgwide attribute is currently
> supported only for tables in the fo stylesheets.  That is a bug, so
> you could file a bug report on that.
> 
> But even if it is supported, I don't think it would do what you
> want.  The fo:span="all" property refers to spanning page columns.
> But glossentries are formatted with either fo:block or fo:list-item
> in a single page column.  Since the figure is part of the glossdef
> block, I don't think you can get it to center on the page without
> further intervention.

Interesting.  I may have to put the figure elsewhere, then, and refer
to it by label in the text.  Can anyone suggest an alternative?


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Paul.

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