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[docbook-apps] not so super superscript
- From: Cassafrass <casferguson at gmail dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:27:25 -0800
- Subject: [docbook-apps] not so super superscript
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- Reply-to: Cassafrass <casferguson at gmail dot com>
Actually, the subscript isn't too great either. I'm finding that the
superscript is nearly the same size as a regular character and that it
not raised above regular characters. It looks particularly bad when I
use superscript for references. Similarly, the subscript is not really
sub at all.
For example, these letters all turn out the same size:
<emphasis>w<subscript>ph</subscript></emphasis>
A second problem is that in order to keep the super/subscript next to
a letter, it has to be included within the <emphasis>, otherwise a
space is inserted between the two. For example:
<emphasis>R</emphasis><subscript>o</subscript>
puts a space between R and o. For time being, I've moved the emphasis,
but now my subscript is forced to emphasize, too.
I'm using Oxygen (OSX) saxon/FOP to generate a PS file with
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"file:/Applications/oxygen/docbook/dtd/docbookx.dtd">
and this stylesheet
/docbook/xsl/fo/docbook.xsl
Thanks for any advice you might have on making my superscript super.
Casey