Hello Andreas, Thanks for your comments
On 01/26/2011 12:02 PM, Andreas Delmelle wrote: > On 26 Jan 2011, at 19:42, Rob Sargent wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > >> Is there really no fop way to get consistently placed top and bottom >> lines, such as one expects in a multi-column page of a magazine? >> > No mechanism defined for this in standard XSL-FO 1.1, unfortunately... > Wow >> I can see that this would mean reverse-leading(?) after the contents of >> the page had been established, but it seems a fundamental formatting >> requirement. >> > IIRC, FOP does take care of column-balancing, but only does so for all but > the last page. More or less similar to a line-layout, where you generally > apply alignment justification on all lines but the last. > Hoping that the notion of balancing isn't just to approximate equalize the vertical length of the columns... I see several references to tests of region-body_column-count which are disabled because "Column balancing doesn't work as expected", but I'm don't see how to turn the balancing on? I see in ExtensionElementMapping.java that "disable-column-balancing" is the default in the fox name-space. And I apparently one turns balancing on by setting that attribute to "false", is that correct? To that end, I added the namespace to my xsl file (xmlns:fox="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/extensions";) and added the attribute to my region-body elements but the parser as '<fo:region-body disable-column-balancing="false" column-count="2"' but my Transformer chokes complaining that 'Invalid property encountered on "fo:region-body": disable-column-balancing' > One possible way out could be to put in a trailing, empty fo:block with > span="all" set. That should trigger column-balancing, even if the content > takes up less than one page. In combination with display-align="center", that > might come very close to what you're looking for. If I understand the > requirement correctly, that is... > > We're working on chapters of a text book, so I don't think this is a practicable option here. Thanks again, rjs > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Andreas > --- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
