Subject: margin adjustment
From: Frédéric Gobry (frederic.gobry@epfl.ch)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 11:02:24 CDT
Hi,
I've started to provide support for AbiWord's file format into my
bibliography tool (http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer). For the moment, I
decided not to use advanced features like dynamic fields because I don't
have enough time to work on it. So I'll parse an abiword document, look for
specific tags defining bibliographic references in it and use these tags to
generate a new (or eventually a complementary) abiword file containing the
updated tags and the actual bibliography.
Here comes the problem. I've written a first module that can export to .abi
format. A bibliography looks like this:
[key] Author, Title,... blah blah ......
blahh... blahhh..
[other] other entry... blah....
For this, I generate XML like this :
<p props="text-align:justify; margin-left:0.7in; text-indent:-0.7in">[ABK]
Abdennadher, Nabil, Gilbert Babin and Pierre Kuonen. Combining
Metacomputing and High Performance Computing.</p>
My problem is to find a good heuristic for the margin lengths... Would it be
possible to give the size in some sort of font-related unit, like em and ex
in LaTeX ? Or do you know another method to achieve the same effect ?
Thanks a lot for that promising software !
Frédéric
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