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Menu arrow off-centered in PDFHi Jeff,
Just to be clear here, your example shows an ASCII representation of an arrow using dash and greater-than, but you are getting an actual arrow character, right?

Yes, the bottom of the arrow character does rest on the baseline, because the stylesheet does not say otherwise. That character is copied from the stylesheet param "menuchoice.menu.separator", whose default value is:

<xsl:param name="menuchoice.menu.separator"> → </xsl:param>

Since the stylesheet uses xsl:copy on that param, you could customize it by putting an fo:inline to adjust the baseline:

<xsl:param name="menuchoice.menu.separator"> <fo:inline baseline-shift=".2em">→</fo:inline> </xsl:param>

or some other XSL-FO property to adjust its baseline. I'm not sure what property you would use to get it to be "centered with the text".

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Storey
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:48 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Menu arrow off-centered in PDF


My docbook has some menuchoice that look like:

<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Import Image</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

As expected, in my PDF it says: Import -> Import Image

However, the arrow is not centered with the text. It looks like the arrow is along the baseline of the text. Is this expected?

thanks,
Jeff

Bob,



Thanks for the reply. You are correct, I am getting an actual arrow
character. Using the baseline shift worked perfectly.



Thanks,

Jeff



From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:04 PM
To: Jeff Storey; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Menu arrow off-centered in PDF



Hi Jeff,

Just to be clear here, your example shows an ASCII representation of an
arrow using dash and greater-than, but you are getting an actual arrow
character, right?



Yes, the bottom of the arrow character does rest on the baseline,
because the stylesheet does not say otherwise. That character is copied
from the stylesheet param "menuchoice.menu.separator", whose default
value is:



<xsl:param name="menuchoice.menu.separator"> → </xsl:param>



Since the stylesheet uses xsl:copy on that param, you could customize it
by putting an fo:inline to adjust the baseline:



<xsl:param name="menuchoice.menu.separator"> <fo:inline
baseline-shift=".2em">→</fo:inline> </xsl:param>



or some other XSL-FO property to adjust its baseline. I'm not sure what
property you would use to get it to be "centered with the text".



Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net





----- Original Message -----

From: Jeff Storey <mailto:jeff.storey@nextcentury.com>

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:48 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Menu arrow off-centered in PDF



My docbook has some menuchoice that look like:


<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Import
Image</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

As expected, in my PDF it says: Import -> Import Image

However, the arrow is not centered with the text. It looks like
the arrow is along the baseline of the text. Is this expected?

thanks,
Jeff