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

[Stephen Bannasch <stephen at concord dot org>]

At 12:34 PM -0500 3/24/02, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Stephen Bannasch <stephen@concord.org> was heard to say:
>| My ordered lists have extra space between lines.
>
>This is, IMHO, a browser issue. The content model of LI clearly allows
>P and there's no reason why the browsers should do what they do.
>
>That said, lots of people would like it to work differently. It would
>be fairly easy to suppress the P on listitems containing a single
>paragraph, so I suppose that's what I should do. I hesitate because it
>would create some inconsistencies if some listitems in the list
>contained more than one paragraph.

I suppose it could be a parameterized behavior  :-)

Did you see my description of the same problem when making a pdf via fo->fop->pdf?

At 9:15 AM -0500 3/22/02, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>I'm having the same problem with extra space between items in a simple ordered list when I render to pdf via fo/fop.
>
>I have an docbook article with a title and two three item orderedlists, one compact and the second normal.
>
>Here's the xml:
>
>  http://concord.org/~stephen/orderedlist.xml
>
>Here's the pdf:
>
>  http://concord.org/~stephen/orderedlist.pdf
>
>And here's the html I mentioned earlier
>
>  http://concord.org/~stephen/orderedlist.html
>
>Is this spacing normal?  What can I do the make a more compact orderedlist?


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