1 | <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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2 | xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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3 | xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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4 | xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
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5 | xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
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6 | version="5.0" xml:id="nominal.image.width">
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7 | <refmeta>
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8 | <refentrytitle>nominal.image.width</refentrytitle>
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9 | <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">length</refmiscinfo>
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10 | </refmeta>
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11 | <refnamediv>
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12 | <refname>nominal.image.width</refname>
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13 | <refpurpose>The nominal image width</refpurpose>
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14 | </refnamediv>
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15 |
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16 | <refsynopsisdiv>
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17 | <src:fragment xml:id="nominal.image.width.frag">
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18 | <xsl:param name="nominal.image.width" select="6 * $pixels.per.inch"/>
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19 | </src:fragment>
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20 | </refsynopsisdiv>
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21 |
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22 | <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
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23 |
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24 | <para>Graphic widths expressed as a percentage are problematic. In the
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25 | following discussion, we speak of width and contentwidth, but
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26 | the same issues apply to depth and contentdepth.</para>
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27 |
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28 | <para>A width of 50% means "half of the available space for the image."
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29 | That's fine. But note that in HTML, this is a dynamic property and
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30 | the image size will vary if the browser window is resized.</para>
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31 |
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32 | <para>A contentwidth of 50% means "half of the actual image width".
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33 | But what does that mean if the stylesheets cannot assess the image's
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34 | actual size? Treating this as a width of 50% is one possibility, but
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35 | it produces behavior (dynamic scaling) that seems entirely out of
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36 | character with the meaning.</para>
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37 |
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38 | <para>Instead, the stylesheets define a
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39 | <parameter>nominal.image.width</parameter> and convert percentages to
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40 | actual values based on that nominal size.</para>
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41 |
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42 | </refsection>
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43 | </refentry>
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