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Just by chance I have a blockquote in which a page break occurs
between the quotation and the attribution.  This simply looks
bad. I have tried using <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>
after the <blockquote>, but it doesn't have any effect.


<blockquote><?dbfo
keep-together="always"?>
<attribution>A. N. Author, <citetitle>A Title</citetitle></attribution>
<para>Some long quotation here extending over
several lines</para>
</blockquote>


I could use a hard page-break before the <blockquote>, but
I'd rather not do that - some day it will turn around and bite me! 
For a similar reason I don't like to use a soft page break,
<?dbfo-need height="1.5in"?> before the blockquote,
suppose I later change the line spacing in the document!


Is there any way I can use 'keep-together' to force the quote and
attribution to keep to the same page?


I have tried to customize blockquote in fo/block.xsl, but it
doesn't work, what am I doing wrong?


<xsl:template match="blockquote">


<!-- this variable added
-->

 
<xsl:variable
name="keep.together">

   
<xsl:call-template
name="dbfo-attribute">

     
<xsl:with-param
name="pis"

                     
select="processing-instruction('dbfo')"/>

     
<xsl:with-param
name="attribute" select="'keep-together'"/>

   
</xsl:call-template>

 
</xsl:variable>

<!-- 
-->


 
<fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">

   
<xsl:call-template
name="anchor"/>

   
<fo:block>


<!-- this test added
-->

     
<xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">

        <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">

          <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>

        </xsl:attribute>

     
</xsl:if>

<!-- 
-->


     
<xsl:if test="title">

        <fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-sets="formal.title.properties">

          <xsl:apply-templates select="."
mode="object.title.markup"/>

        </fo:block>

     
</xsl:if>

     
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*[local-name(.) != 'title'

                                  
and local-name(.) != 'attribution']"/>

   
</fo:block>

   
<xsl:if test="attribution">
      <fo:block
text-align="right">
        <xsl:text>&#x2014;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:apply-templates select="attribution"/>

     
</fo:block>

   
</xsl:if>

 
</fo:block>

</xsl:template>





Ron

Ron Catterall, Phd, DSc       email: ron@catterall.net

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El Miércoles, 11 de Abril de 2007 22:50, Ron Catterall escribió:

>
>   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">
>     <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
>     <fo:block>
>
>
>       <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
>         <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">
>           <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>
>         </xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:if>
>

Try moving it to just after the first fo:block.

<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">

      <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
        <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">
          <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>

    <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
    <fo:block>


--
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Thanks, that did it.
Ron

>El Miércoles, 11 de Abril de 2007 22:50, Ron Catterall escribió:
>
>>
> > <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">
>> <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
>> <fo:block>
>>
>>
>> <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
>> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">
>> <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>
>> </xsl:attribute>
>> </xsl:if>
>>
>
>Try moving it to just after the first fo:block.
>
> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="blockquote.properties">
>
> <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">
> <xsl:value-of select="$keep.together"/>
> </xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:if>
>
> <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
> <fo:block>
>
>
>--
>Manuel Canales Esparcia
>Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
>LFS en castellano: http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es http://www.lfs-es.info
>TLDP-ES: http://es.tldp.org
>
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--
Ron Catterall, Phd, DSc email: ron@catterall.net
Prolongacion de Hidalgo 140 http://catterall.net/
San Felipe del Agua tel: +52 951 520 1821
Oaxaca 68020 Mexico fax: +1 530 348 8309