Claudio De Bernardi > does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? > I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which > contains tab characters, and I want to keep them in the resulting PDF. I > put the text into a block tag with the attribute > white-space-collapse="false" ( the text to be printed hasn't a standard > format, so I can't use tables ) > It seems that FOP recognize tabs but it simply replaces them with a > fixed number of "white spaces" without any kind of consideration about > horizontal alignment
I do not know the answer to your direct question. However, AFAIK, the spirit, and probably the letter, of the XSL-FO standard is that tabular data should be put into tables. The tab was invented for typewriters & similar devices, and is inferior to real tables. I may be wrong, but it seems that if you have tabs separating tabular data, that you do indeed have a standard format that could use tables. Consider digging a little deeper along that axis. HTH. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
