<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>normal.para.spacing</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="general.html" title="Pagination and General Styles"><link rel="prev" href="default.units.html" title="default.units"><link rel="next" href="para.properties.html" title="para.properties"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">normal.para.spacing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="default.units.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Pagination and General Styles</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="para.properties.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="normal.para.spacing"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">normal.para.spacing</span></h2><p> normal.para.spacing — What space do you want between normal paragraphs </p></div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <a name="normal.para.spacing.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"><xsl:attribute-set name="normal.para.spacing"> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">1em</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0.8em</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">1.2em</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set></pre> </div> <div class="refsection"><a name="idp5915552"></a><h2>Description</h2> <p>Specify the spacing required between normal paragraphs as well as the following block-level elements: </p> <div class="literallayout"><p>ackno<br> acknowledgements<br> cmdsynopsis<br> glosslist<br> sidebar<br> simpara<br> simplelist<br> </p></div> <p>To customize the spacing, you need to reset all three attributes.</p> <p>To specify properties on just <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/para.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">para</code></a> elements without affecting these other elements, use the <a class="link" href="para.properties.html" title="para.properties">para.properties</a> attribute-set. </p> </div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="default.units.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="general.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="para.properties.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">default.units </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> para.properties</td></tr></table></div></body></html>