XSL Support

XSL Properties Mapped to PangoAttribute Types

The following XSL properties can be mapped to corresponding Pango attributes:

XSL Property	Property Description	PangoAttribute Type
font-family	Font family name	family
font-size	Size of the font when set solid	size
font-weight	Weight of the font	weight
font-style	Requests faces within a font family	style
font-stretch	Selects a normal, condensed, or extended face from a font family	stretch
font-variant	Selects a small-caps font for a bicameral script	variant
baseline-shift	Allows repositioning of the dominant-baseline relative to the dominant-baseline of the parent area	rise
color	Describes the foreground color of an element's text content	foreground
background-color	Sets the background color of an element	background
content-height, content-width	Specifies the content-height and content-width of some object	shape

The PangoPDF library adds PangoAttribute types to the PDF backend for the following XSL properties:

keep-together.within-line – Imposes keep-together conditions within a line.
keep-with-next.within-line – Imposes keep-with-next conditions within a line.
keep-with-previous.within-line – Imposes keep-with-previous conditions within a line.
line-height – Sets the half-leading trait that determines the space between adjacent lines.
line-stacking-strategy – Selects the strategy for positioning adjacent lines relative to each other.

The following PangoAttribute types that do not directly map to XSL properties have also been added to the PDF backend:

Pango Attribute	Description
callback	Added to support the external-graphic formatting object

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