[xep-support] Nesting indents

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Lori,

> I would like to nest indenting for list blocks so that 
> if a list occurs within a list, the child list gets indented 
> relative to the previous one.  
>
>  <skip/>
>
>  I have tried to use start-indent to do this as follows:
> <fo:list-block 
>   provisional-distance-between-starts="1.15in" text-align="left" 
>   font-size="12pt" line-height="16pt" 
>   start-indent="from-parent(start-indent)+.25in" 
>
>
> however, XEP generates warnings that look like:
> {?Bad attribute start-indent: Cannot add type Word to type Length}

That's a limitation of XEP: it cannot use body-start()/label-end()
properties in expressions. These functions are only allowed as standalone
tokens. In your example, "body-start()" is returned by from-parent() 
function, and the summation fails.

> It may be that I'm attempting to use the from-parent(start-indent) 
> incorrectly.  Does anyone have a solution for handling 
> the nested indents 

Your code is correct but unsupported in XEP. As a workaround,
Jeff Beal's solution is the best: use margins to shift the indent 
by a fixed amount.

Best regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
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