DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Floating images

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
| On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:45:36PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
>> At 08:46 15/12/2001 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>> > Wrapping text around a figure is but a small example of "layout
>> > driven" formatting. The XSL WG decided that layout driven formatting
>> > was sufficiently complex and difficult that it was not a reasonable
>> > 1.0 feature.
>
| Well, wrapping text around the side of a figure must not be
| considered "layout driven" formatting, because it _is_ in
| the XSL 1.0 Recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/):

<blush/> Never answer email without checking the specs first. Dang it,
I knew that rule, too. :-)

| Scanning through the XSL fo stylesheet files, I don't find
| the word "float" anywhere, and looking at the XSL template
| for <figure> I don't see the DocBook float attribute being
| supported.  So without customizing the stylesheet, you won't
| be able to output a fo:float.

Seems like maybe I oughta fix that, huh? :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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