Re: [docbook] Line spacing

Thank you, Bob. That's exactly what I wanted.


Bob Stayton wrote:
> Then you can output a processing instruction like <?break?> using XSLT 
> as follows:
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> <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
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mansour" <>
> To: "Bob Stayton" <>
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> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook] Line spacing
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>> 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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