Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: My ordered lists have extra space between lines.

[Ed Nixon <ed dot nixon at LynnParkPlace dot org>]

One of the things you should consider and check out is the extent to which 
default padding and margins my have an effect on the display. I've run into 
a lot of differences among browsers that can be eliminated or at least 
reduced by explicitly re-setting the style characteristics of P (and, I 
suppose, LI) to something that alternative browsers will at least attempt 
to interpret consistently. You can do this with a quick STYLE block in the 
HEAD. (I qualify this when Netscape 4.x is in the equation; one needs to be 
a lot more into the bug trivia of that browser than I am to get it to work 
at all, let along consistently. Reason enough to join the "Update Your 
Browser" campaign.)

cheers.                 ...edN

At 12:29 PM 21/03/2002 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
>Well, I looked at your URL and they all look the same to
>my browsers: IE 5.5 on Win98 and Netscape 4.72 on Linux.
>They all have no space between items.  Strange.
>What version of IE are you using?
>
>Removing the <p> tags is probably the most reliable
>method, but doing that with the XSL stylesheets could
>be tricky.
>
>bobs
>
>On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:43:10PM -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > I tested your html in IE and Mozilla and it didn't seem to work.
> >
> > I think the html should probably look like this:
> >
> >       <div class="orderedlist">
> >         <ol type="1" compact>
> >           <li>item 1</li>
> >           <li>item 2</li>
> >           <li>item 3</li>
> >         </ol>
> >       </div>
> >
> > I put up the html for four orderedlists here:
> >
> >   http://concord.org/~stephen/orderedlist.html
> >
> > The first one uses your method, the second is the one above, the third 
> is the same without the compact attribute, the fourth is what is produced 
> by the docbook stylesheets except that I have removed the trailing 
> </p>.  That doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > At 10:40 AM -0800 3/21/02, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > >On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:04:22PM -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> > >> My ordered lists have extra space between lines.
> > >>
> > >> The problem below happens in both html and in fo->fop->pdf.
> > >>
> > >> using docbook-xsl-1.50.0 (and older versions)
> > >>
> > >> <orderedlist numeration="arabic" spacing="compact">
> > >>   <listitem><para>item 1</para></listitem>
> > >>   <listitem><para>item 2</para></listitem>
> > >>   <listitem><para>item 3</para></listitem>
> > >> </orderedlist>
> > >>
> > >> produces html like this:
> > >>
> > >>       <div class="orderedlist">
> > >>         <ol type="1" compact="">
> > >>           <li>
> > >>             <p>item 1</p>
> > >>           </li>
> > >>           <li>
> > >>             <p>item 2</p>
> > >>           </li>
> > >>           <li>
> > >>             <p>item 3</p>
> > >>           </li>
> > >>         </ol>
> > >>       </div>
> > >>
> > >> Which produces output like this:
> > >>
> > >>   1. item 1
> > >>
> > >>   2. item 2
> > >>
> > >>   3. item 3
> > >>
> > >> There are two problems.  The obvious one is the <p>
> > >> wrapped around the list content produces an extra blank
> > >> line between list items.  The result is the same with the
> > >> orderedlist spacing set to normal.
> > >>
> > >> The content in the docbook listitem needs to be wrapped
> > >> in something since the listitem can't be PCDATA.  Is there
> > >> something else I can wrap my docbook items in that won't
> > >> produce the extra spacing produced with <para>?
> > >>
> > >> Also according to the html4.0 spec the attribute compact
> > >> should be rendered as either: [compact] or
> > >> [compact="compact"].  However they warn that many browsers
> > >> only interpret the simpler form.
> > >
> > >For HTML output,
> > >I've never found the 'compact' list option to be
> > >reliably supported in the browsers.
> > >
> > >I have some clues, but not a complete answer.
> > >The problem is actually with the closing </p> at
> > >the end of each list item.  If you remove that, the
> > >space disappears.  Apparently the browsers figure
> > >if you have a closing </p> then you intended space.
> > >But that's not an option using the XSL stylesheets.
> > >
> > >A margin style seems to work as well, by assigning a
> > >class="compact" to those paras inside such lists:
> > >
> > ><html>
> > ><head>
> > ><style type="text/css">
> > >  p.compact {margin-bottom: 0;}
> > ></style>
> > ></head>
> > >...
> > >      <div class="orderedlist">
> > >        <ol type="1" compact="">
> > >          <li>
> > >            <p class="compact">item 1</p>
> > >          </li>
> > >          <li>
> > >            <p class="compact">item 2</p>
> > >          </li>
> > >          <li>
> > >            <p class="compact">item 3</p>
> > >          </li>
> > >        </ol>
> > >      </div>
> > >
> > >You'll have to customize the stylesheet to get
> > >that class attribute added to para's inside lists
> > >with spacing="compact".
> > >
> > >Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
> > >Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
> > >Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
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> > >                                            email: bobs@caldera.com
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > -s
>
>--
>
>Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
>Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
>Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
>Caldera International, Inc.                 fax:   (831) 429-1887
>                                             email: bobs@caldera.com