[xep-support] white spaces

[Lily Galle]

Thank you very much!!

Lily


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> Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:23:14 -0500
> Von: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights.com>
> An: xep-support at renderx.com
> Betreff: Re: [xep-support] white spaces

> At 2008-11-14 06:02 +0100, Lily Galle wrote:
> >Thank you very much for your answers. But maybe 
> >I did not wrote my questions clearly enough. 
> >Your answer are only for the white spaces which are regular.
> 
> Forgive me for expressing myself poorly, for I 
> did not mean to imply that.  My answers give you 
> complete control over how much vertical and horizontal white-space you
> need.
> 
> >I need white spaces, whose position and length are not regular.
> 
> Right ... and with the controls I mentioned you 
> get to make each one however you wish.
> 
> >I wrote my question again:
> >
> >I use “XEP”.
> 
> I assumed that ... but XEP implements XSL-FO and 
> I am advising on the XSL-FO to use.
> 
> >1.
> >I would like put some white space between the Words. Like following:
> >    She   likes  to      have               pears.
> >
> >The spaces between the words are not regular. In 
> >my DocBook “myDocBook.xml” I wrote the code like
> “&#x20” and it failed.
> 
> Correct, because space characters are collapsed 
> according to XSL-FO ... which is why I suggested 
> you use <fo:leader>.  The white-space created by 
> a leader is not collapsed in the same way that 
> character white-space is collapsed.
> 
> >2.
> >How to put a white space at the beginning of a line?
> >
> >I need this irregularly: some lines have white 
> >spaces at the beginning, some do not have.
> 
> How are you specifying this in your 
> XML?  Translate that construct into <fo:leader>
> 
> >3.
> >I need very often to produce some white spaces 
> >between two lines. The only way I found out in 
> >“XEP” is:  <literallayout>    </literallayout>
> 
> That is awkward, but it does not require custom 
> interpretation of DocBook.  If you want custom 
> control, then you have to either modify DocBook 
> or modify the interpretation of DocBook.  For 
> example, I have often overloaded DocBook elements 
> by using the role= attribute and then interpreted 
> constructs with role= in custom ways.
> 
> >Are there some other ways to produce white 
> >spaces between two lines in XEP? (The position 
> >and the length of the white spaces are not regular.)
> 
> For vertical space use space-before= .. for 
> horizontal space use <fo:leader> ... my advice 
> hasn't changed.  Those are the ways to do it in 
> XSL-FO, so those are the ways to do it in 
> XEP.  Perhaps someone else on the list who knows 
> DocBook better than I do can help you with 
> DocBook constructs that can do this without the customization.
> 
> >Thanks for any help!
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> . . . . . . . . . Ken
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