Yes, but the problem there is: If I do that, the long body text will
cause an overflow, and half of my text ends up in nirvana ;-)
Best regards,
Eric
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Von: Pascal Sancho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 16:47
An: [email protected]
Betreff: RE : Page breaks and keeping blocks together
Eric,
You should use keep-with-next on title (or keep-with-previous on
1st para), that should do the trick.
Pascal
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De: Lewis, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: mer. 19/09/2007 16:33
Hi
I'm having again a problem of page breaks and keeping
things together (I
last wrote to this list in June 07).
I have a paragraph with a title and a body afterwards
that must be kept
together if possible. As a fix to my last problem, I
check whether the
title and body should be kept together always or whether
I let FOP do
the page breaks.
This means I have something like
<xsl:template match="histTxt">
<fo:block>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(.) >
$maximumLength">
<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together">auto</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together">always</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
In apply-templates, some escaped pseudo-HTML is
converted into XSL-FO,
so at the end I have something like
<fo:block keep-together="always">
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">my title</fo:inline>
<fo:block/>my body bla bla bla bla
bla<fo:block></fo:block>
</fo:block>
and for really long texts
<fo:block keep-together="auto">
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">my other
title</fo:inline>
<fo:block/>Really, really long text, much longer than
I care to type
here...<fo:block></fo:block>
</fo:block>
Most of the blocks are used for breaks, as you can see.
However, my problem is that at some point, the bold
title is standing on
its own, and the body appears on the next page, like
my other title
--------------------------- page break
Really, really long text,
much longer than I care to
type here...
Not really nice! :-)
But hey, that's what orphans and widows are for, but
after using them:
<xsl:template match="histTxt">
<fo:block>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(.) >
$maximumLength">
<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together">auto</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute
name="orphans">3</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="widows">3</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together">always</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
The result is much worse, the titles appear as orphans
all over the
place. Besides, as I understand the default is 2, so
this should never
happen (?)
I'm certainly doing something wrong, but what? I'd be
glad for any hints
:-)
Best regards,
Eric
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