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Re: how to get the cool outline circles in a calloutlist?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: ion <vnhu38f93 at subdimension dot com>,docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:28:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: how to get the cool outline circles in a calloutlist?
- References: <20021111145759.A3277@caldera.com><Pine.LNX.4.44.0211111758490.17599-100000@dell>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:02:08PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are you using a customization? The 'callout.graphics'
> > > > parameter is set to 1 by default in the XSL stylesheets.
> > >
> > > found the problem -- the callout graphics png files 1.png and
> > > so on were not at the default directory location, so a quick
> > > fix to callout.graphics.path took care of that.
> > >
> > > OTOH, for each callout in the calloutlist, i'm now getting
> > > the number, then the associated text on a new line, rather than
> > > continuing on the same line, which differs from the presentation
> > > in norm's online TDG. i see no callout XSL directive that defines
> > > that behavior.
> > >
> > > that is, what i'm getting:
> > >
> > > 1
> > > stuff for callout 1 ...
> > >
> > > 2
> > > stuff for callout 2 ...
> > >
> > > what i want:
> > >
> > > 1 stuff for callout 1 ...
> > >
> > > 2 stuff for callout 2 ...
> > >
> > >
> > > help?
> >
> > That's odd. Is this HTML or FO output?
>
> HTML. the numbers assigned by <co> tags are proper, at the ends of
> their respective lines.
>
> but the entries in the calloutlist have the numbers, then, as i said,
> a new line before the actual text. i'm using exactly the syntax i
> see in norm's TDG example for calloutlist. except for that oddity,
> everything else is fine.
>
> i'm trying to figure out if there's some other XSL directive i
> overlooked, but i think i've seen all of them related to callouts.
What does the HTML output for the callout list look like?
It should be a table, with the callout bug in column one
and the text in column two.
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