That was quite ingenious, and it worked beautifully. Thanks for the help.
Eric Amick Legislative Computer Systems Office of the Clerk -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:12 To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Text Formatting Problem Hi Eric, Try something like the following: <block-container width="1.5in" space-after="-14.4pt"> <block>Here is some really long text for testing.</block> </block-container> <table start-indent="1.5in" width="100%" table-layout="fixed"> <table-column column-width="1.5in" number-columns-repeated="2"/> <table-body start-indent="0"> <table-cell> <block>99999</block> </table-cell> <table-cell> <block>And now for some more text.</block> </table-cell> </table-body> </table> The idea is to shift the table one line upwards by setting a negative margin on the block-container. This negative margin should have the value (font-size * 1.2) to match a regular line height. A block-container is needed to set its width to 1.5in instead of the page width. The table is then used for the two remaining columns, with an appropriate start-indent to leave room to the first "column". HTH, Vincent Amick, Eric wrote: > I should have pointed out that the first and third columns can both > have more than two lines, and that I can't guarantee both columns will > have the same number of lines. > > Here's what I'm currently trying; this is a greatly simplified test: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> > <layout-master-set> > <simple-page-master page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" > margin-left="1in" margin-right="1in" margin-top="2in" > margin-bottom="2in" master-name="foo"> > <region-body/> > </simple-page-master> > </layout-master-set> > <page-sequence master-reference="foo"> > <flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> > <table table-layout="fixed"> > <table-column column-width="1.5in" number-columns-repeated="3"/> > <table-body display-align="after"> > <table-row> > <table-cell> > <block>Here is some really long text for testing.</block> > </table-cell> > <table-cell> > <block>99999</block> > </table-cell> > <table-cell> > <block-container overflow="hidden" wrap-option="no-wrap"> > <block>And now for some more text.</block> > </block-container> > </table-cell> > </table-row> > <table-row> > <table-cell column-number="3"> > <block-container overflow="hidden" > text-indent="-from-table-column(column-width)"> > <block>And now for some more text.</block> > </block-container> > </table-cell> > </table-row> > <table-row> > <table-cell> > <block>foo</block> > </table-cell> > <table-cell> > <block>88888</block> > </table-cell> > <table-cell> > <block>Some text.</block> > </table-cell> > </table-row> > </table-body> > </table> > </flow> > </page-sequence> > </root> > > > This is close to what I need, but it has two problems: > 1) In the first table-row, the text in the third column gets clipped > in the middle of a letter during my testing, which is obviously > undesirable. > 2) This method works only if you can generate the extra table-row for > a given entry only when needed. I tried the empty-cells="hide" > property on that extra row, but the spec says hide works only when > there is no visible content, which they define as being completely > empty or containing only whitespace. If you shorten the text going > into the third column, you'll see the extra row still appears even > though it contains nothing that prints on the page. > > I wish there was some way to determine if a particular block was going > to wrap, or to specify that only N lines of a wrapped block should be > displayed. > > > Eric Amick > Legislative Computer Systems > Office of the Clerk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas L Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 16:40 > To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: Text Formatting Problem > > On Jan 15, 2008, at 18:03, Amick, Eric wrote: > > Hi > >> I have a three-column listing of phone numbers, and most of the time, >> each column entry has only one line of text. Sometimes, however, I >> have entries that look like this: >> >> Text that spans >> two lines ........... 99999 More text that >> spans two lines >> >> In case the format gets garbled, the number in the second column >> should line up with the last line of text in the first column and the >> first line of text in the third column. I've tried using >> display-align > >> and vertical-align, but I can't come up with a way that works. Does >> anyone have any suggestions? -- Vincent Hennebert Anyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer FOP Development/Consulting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
