Then you can output a processing instruction like <?break?> using XSLT as
follows:
<xsl:processing-instruction name="break"/>
Then your docbook stylesheet customization can process that into an empty
fo:block to create the line break.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mansour" <>
To: "Bob Stayton" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook] Line spacing
>I am aware of the literallayout tag. However, it preserves every thing
>inside the tag like extra spaces. That's why I am trying avoid using it.
>On the other hand, using a processing instruction like <?break-line?> is
>not going to work, because I am not writing a docbook document directly. I
>am writing a template (xslt) that will generate a docbook. And I couldn't
>find a way to output <?break?> from the xslt to the docbook the way it's
>for further processing.
>
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> Bob Stayton wrote:
>> You might try putting your lines inside a literallayout element instead
>> of individual para elements. In literallayout, line breaks are
>> preserved in the output, which would eliminate the extra spacing
>> introduced by para.
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> DocBook Consulting
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mansour" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:55 PM
>> Subject: [docbook] Line spacing
>>
>>
>>> How do I control line spacing? I need to write few lines of text and I
>>> am puting each of them in <para> element in order to get the line
>>> break. Now the space between each of them is huge and I need to make it
>>> smaller. How do I proceed ?
>>>
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