Re: [docbook-apps] chapter title alignment

[Georges Schmitz <georges dot schmitz at heitec dot de>]

Bob Stayton schrieb:

>Hmm, setting the text-align attribute in 'component.title.properties'
>attribute-set works for me, and it should work for you.  If you can 
look in
>the fo file at the block for a chapter title, see if it has some value for
>that attribute.

Yes, you are right. After setting the 'component.title.properties'
attributes, I didn't render the document to PDF, but just looked into
the FO output - grrrr - at the wrong place.

It was the table of contents I looked at (just searching for my title
string...). But I think, I found another undesirable effect, because
'text-align-last="justify"' is set. I wondered what would happen with
very long entries in TOC spanning over more than one line and made a
short test.

Well, with FOP the line (a) breaks behind the print space of the page
numbers and (b) continues beneath section numbering:

----------------
1)  a b c .... 1
2)  c d e f .. 2
3)  g h i j k l m n
o p q ........ 3
4)  r s t .... 4  
----------------

With XEP the line break in TOC is OK, but (b) also happens. Is it
possible to fix these two issues?

Thanks so far,
Georges


>
>I agree that  left alignment should be the default for the section and
>chapter titles.
>
>Bob Stayton
>Sagehill Enterprises
>DocBook Consulting
>bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Georges Schmitz" <georges.schmitz@heitec.de>
>To: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:12 AM
>Subject: [docbook-apps] chapter title alignment
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I don't want titles being "justified", it simply doesn't look good if
>>longer text (in very big letters as in chapter title) is being wrapped
>>AND justified (I never have seen books making use of it). Could not 
"left"
>>being made the default?

...

>>Looking into the FO output, I saw text-align-last="justify" in a
>>relevant fo:block element, but no idea, (a) where this attribute comes
>>from and (b) why not a simple text-align attribute is used.
...


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