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: [email protected]
> 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
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