Thanks for the help.
Ed
--- "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eduardos wrote:
> > The problem is that the fo:leader does not take
> into
> > account the size of the $author text and therefore
> > produces a longer than expected leader.
>
> I tried it with FOP 0.20.3 and indeed, the table
> cell
> overflows. I read the spec multiple times, and the
> interesting point seems to be, the leader is allowed
> to fill the the available space in the line up to
> the
> percentage declared in leader-length, possibly
> overflowing the region by both the space needed for
> any text before and after the leader which can't be
> stuffed into another line. This is not exactly what
> I expected, but it does not violate the spec. The
> expected behaviour, using the room provided by
> leader-length.minimum and leader-length.maximum to
> justify the text properly, is actually formulated
> as "it's common practice", some sort of weak
> recommendation.
>
> > I am not sure if this is a bug in fop or if I am
> using
> > fo:leader incorrectly.
> In some sense you are using fo:leader incorrectly by
> setting leader-length to 100%, which IIRC means that
> *all* values, .minimum, .optimum and .maximum are
> set
> to 100%, causing the formatter to use the full line
> width for the leader length. It ought to be a good
> idea
> to use the default values (.min=0, .opt=12pt,
> .max=100%).
>
> It's also probably a good idea to use
> text-align="justify"
> and text-align-last="justify" to tell the formatter
> it
> should indeed try to justify. This wont work with
> the
> current FOP, and in this case it is a real bug
> (areas
> overlap).
>
> With FOP, your best bet is to get a reasonable guess
> for
> how much space is available to the leader, assign it
> to
> leader-length.maximum, use text-align-last="justify"
> and
> put a space after the leader to allow for additional
> justification room. Unfortunately, none of the
> interesting
> stuff provided by the spec for making this a bit
> easier
> is currently implemented in FOP.
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block
> text-align-last="justify">Title:Subtitle
> <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"
> leader-length.maximum="24em"
> leader-pattern-width="5pt"/>
> AuthorInfo</fo:block>
> </fo:table-cell>
>
> Some other hints:
> > <fo:table-column
> column-width="{concat($text-width -
> > 1.25, 'in')}"/>
> You can write this as
> <fo:table-column column-width="{$text-width -
> 1.25}in"/>
>
> > <xsl:value-of select="$title"/>
> > :<xsl:value-of select="$subtitle"/>
> You are introducing a white space here, which could
> induce
> an unwanted line break.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
>
>
>
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