Re: [docbook-apps] docbook.xsl/fo: best way to bring all titles closerto their context

[Thomas Gier <thomas.gier@gmx.de>]

Sebastian Fey wrote:
> hi,
> 
> in my printed documents component titles are as close to their context (the following) as to the preceding elements.
> figure and table titles alike.
> 
> whats the best and easiest way to change this?
> 
> thx,
> 
> Sebastian
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Hi,

you want to change the space before and/or the space after 
table/figure/whatever titles, right?

They get their attributes from the formal.title.properties attribute set 
(which uses the attribute-set normal.para-spacing).

Here's a part of my customisation layer:

<xsl:attribute-set name="formal.title.properties"
                    use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
   <xsl:attribute name="font-family">ScalaSans-Bold</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="font-size">9pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">0pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">0pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">8.5pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">9pt</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">9.5pt</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>

I hope I got your problem right :) ... maybe some of the gurus here on 
the list have a more elegant solution but this works for me ...

Cheers
Thomas Gier

Technical Writer
Aachen / Germany