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diff --git a/doc/faq.txt b/doc/faq.txt index 642691e..2b67a79 100644 --- a/doc/faq.txt +++ b/doc/faq.txt @@ -1381,3 +1381,24 @@ into the generated HTML output. For example: --------------------------------------------------------------- +== Why is there a period after the block title in the PDF output? +If your document has blocks that have block titles, you may notice in +the PDF output (generated by `a2x(1)` using the `--fop` flag) that a +period gets added to the end of the block title. + +You will not see the period in the intermediary DocBook XML that’s +generated when creating a PDF -- it’s added by the DocBook XSL +templates when the DocBook XML is converted to FO XML. + +The DocBook XSL attribute that controls what character is added after +a block title is +http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.78.1/doc/html/runinhead.default.title.end.punct.html[ +runinhead.default.title.end.punct]. You can override it and eliminate +the default period value by adding the following line to the +`./docbook-xsl/common.xsl` file that ships with AsciiDoc: + + <xsl:param name="runinhead.default.title.end.punct"/> + +This FAQ was +https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/19dda8807fa7c3f2[contributed +by Dan Allen]. |