Oh, this is great. I'm a new DocBook user (thus my using your user help site), and just saw the "customize" feature yesterday. Did not know how to use it, though.
Will definitely give these instructions a try today. Thanks, Hussein! Marilyn Shinego -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:05 AM To: Marilyn Shinego Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [XXE] Centering figure captions horizontally on page On 09/19/2012 09:29 PM, Marilyn Shinego wrote: > > Hello, XMLmind Support Team. > > > Was there ever a resolution to the problem of horizontally centering > (in the final .pdf document) > the figure captions? (see below) The solution seems to be described in the mailing list thread below. As of version 5.3, it's easy to add attribute text-align=center to attribute-set formal.title.properties from within XMLmind XML Editor. How to do this is described here: [1] Open your document (or any document of the same type). [2] Select "Options|Customize Configuration|Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets". See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/customizeConfigurationMenu.html [3] Select "Convert to PDF, PostScript". See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/ConversionStylesheetsEditor_reference.html [4] Click "Customize". [5] After creating the empty customization file, click "Edit". [6] Using the "XMLmind XSL Customizer" built-in helper application, add attribute text-align=center to attribute-set formal.title.properties and save your customization file to disk. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xslcustom.Customizer.html > > > Thanks a lot, > Marilyn PS: If you want us to answer your next questions, please identify yourself as a customer. More information in http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/support.html#xmleditor_support_policy > > Clark Karr wrote: > >>/ / > >>/ You're correct that XXE displays the captions and images centered, but >>when/ > >>/ I convert the document to pdf only the image is centered (via the align/ > >>/ attribute). So, I end up with the caption left justified and the image/ > >>/ centered./ > >>/ / > >>/ It's hard to believe captions can't be centered; I hope it's just >>ignorance/ > >>/ on my part. I can't find anything in the docbook documentation and was/ > >>/ hoping you'd be able to help./ > >>/ / > >>/ In many ways, I like the XXE screen format better than that generated for/ > >>/ pdf./ > >>/ / > > > > Centering the title of the figure in the generated PDF can be done by > > customizing the corresponding DocBook XSL style sheet. > > > > More precisely you need to add: > > > > <xsl:attribute name="text-align">center</xsl:attribute> > > > > to the formal.title.properties attribute set: > > > > <xsl:attribute-set name="formal.title.properties" > > > use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing"> > > <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute> > > <xsl:attribute name="font-size"> > > <xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master * 1.2"></xsl:value-of> > > <xsl:text>pt</xsl:text> > > </xsl:attribute> > > <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute> > > <xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">0.4em</xsl:attribute> > > <xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">0.6em</xsl:attribute> > > <xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">0.8em</xsl:attribute> > > </xsl:attribute-set> > > > > More info. in > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/index.html > > > > Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this from XMLmind XML Editor, > > but if you want, you can directly edit > > XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/xsl/fo/param.xsl > > > > (For DocBook 5, you'll have to edit > > XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook5/xsl/fo/param.xsl) > > -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
