[xep-support] Nesting indents

[Lori Wong]

Thanks!

- Lori

At 11:55 AM 3/6/2003, you wrote:
>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
>RenderX
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