I do have a hard time with English, and it's the only language I speak. If the default behaviour is to "balance" the columns, what defines balanced?
We see much variability in the y-coordinate of the last lines both with-in and across (facing) pages. There are cases where keep-with-next causes obvious shortages in one column. To be fair some of these gaps would be too large to rectify by simple adding space between the lines and we will deal with these at the authoring level. But we see many cases of routine paragraphs split at varying distances from the bottom. Others see perfectly matched bottom lines? Are there other factors which might be getting in the way? Cheeris, rjs On 01/26/2011 04:01 PM, Andreas Delmelle wrote: > On 26 Jan 2011, at 23:44, Rob Sargent wrote: > > >> On 01/26/2011 12:02 PM, Andreas Delmelle wrote: >> >>> 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... >> > Hmm, that is precisely it, I'm afraid, and it is enabled by default. The > extension property is prefixed 'disable-' precisely because it alters FOP's > standard behavior. Column-balancing doesn't work as expected in some > scenarios, mainly in combination with footnotes, but for not-too-complex use > cases, it should suffice. > > I thought you were referring to unbalanced columns within the same page, > which can happen on the last page. The other pages should already be > balanced. I must have misunderstood the issue...? > > > 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]
