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Re: itemizedlist and compact spacing

Michael Wiedmann wrote:
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I want same of my <itemizedlist>s to appear in 'compact spacing'
and thus markup these <itemizedlist>s with an 'spacing="compact"'
attribute which gets transformed by the stylesheets to '<ul type="disc" compact>'.
Is this the syntax you are expecting/using or is this what is generated? I don't think it is correct; attribute/value pair you quote earlier is the right syntax, I believe.

But at least Mozilla makes no difference in displaying such HTML
compared to 'ul' w/o 'compact'.
This is probably a FAQ, certainly the question has come up before.

Assuming we are transforming to HTML:

Do your <li>s contain <p>s? If so, the <p> element and its margin and padding characteristics may be overiding the spacing="compact" characteristic. You can check this by putting a CSS rule within a <style> element in the <head> of your document or into your external stylesheet:

li p {padding:0; margin:0;}

and see what changes, if any, occur. Manipulate this rule to refine the spacing if you want to affect the <p> child of <li> or change the <p> characterisitcs overall with a p {} rule.

If you are viewing XML according to DocBook, you would substitute <para> for <p> in the selector.

Regards. ...edN



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