Hello Vincent, > > Like many poster before me, I do have a problem with different > > column-counts on one page. Only slightly different from the examples I > > found in this > > mailing list. > > > > Usually, I want a 2-column-layout, but sometimes blocks span both columns. > > In this cases I want, contrary to all other examples I found up to now, > > only text in the first column. No column breaks, no centered column, only > > the first column filled: > Interesting requirement. Actually the XSL-FO Recommendation doesn't seem to > say anything about column balancing. It just seems that most of the time > people will expect columns to be balanced before starting a block that spans > all the page width. You're the exception that proves the rule > ;-)
Well, most of the time even I would use the balancing algorithm, but not in all cases. I guess I could implement a kind of fox-useBalancer="false" for this cases, but even that would not make Block C (see below) possible. <snip/> > > The only way I found to reach my goal would be manual splitting and > > adding span="all" and margin-right to some blocks. Which is neither > > nice nor foolproof. Can anybody here think of a better solution? > I can't think of any way to achieve what you want that's not a workaround of > some kind. Maybe you could use the keep-together.within-column property > instead of specifying span="all" and a right margin; but that still requires > you to do manual work. I don't mind the manual work (as long as it's the computer doing it), mostly I mind the manual splitting of one fo:block into one 2-column-block (or right column block) on one page and a second 1-column-block with margin on the second page, because the block could contain stuff like lists and that seems quite error-prone to me. keep-together.within-column would make the whole block move to the second column if there are two blocks before a wide block. Using a combination of keep-together="always" and keep-with-previous.within-column="always" works fine for the first page, but when breaking from page 1 to page 2, I would want a page break, maybe even a column break on page 1, but no column break on page 2 (Block C in this sketch): AAA AAA BBBBBBB CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC DDD EEEEEEE FFF FFF Using keep-together.within-column would result in CCC DDD CCC EEEEEEE FFF FFF FFF FFF Regards, Georg Datterl ------ Kontakt ------ Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH: www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH: www.willmy.de Willmy Consult & Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
