you guys are getting rather off topic here; i'd suggest you start a new
thread if you wish to continue
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Rob Sargent <rsarg...@xmission.com> wrote:
> On 09/06/2012 12:03 PM, Samuel Penn wrote:
>
> The general layout of the documents themselves isn't particulary exciting.
> There's a lot I'd like to be able to do, especially around image and table
> layout (auto-placement of images, and stretching them across two text
> columns etc), which doesn't yet seem to be possible in FOP.
>
> span="all" doesn't work? You would of course have to split the page into
> before, body and after regions and place some of the content in the
> erstwhile head and footer. Alternatively a trick VH showed me is to print
> content twice covering 200% of the available width and use left/right
> indent at 0% and -100% alternately. This is how I print tables across two
> pages.
>
> <fo:table border-collapse="separate" table-layout="fixed" width="200%"
> start-indent="{$leftIndent}%"
> end-indent="{$rightIndent}%">
>
> There's an example document here:
> http://yags.glendale.org.uk/download/yags-character.pdf Which is built
> from the source XML files here:
> http://yagsbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/yagsbook/trunk/sources/yags/
>
>
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