While your on the subject, is there a daily/weekly digest?
Thanks,
Jeff
Sorry for the off topic
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From: Woods, John T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: Subject: text colums
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| Thanks,
| John
|
| -Original Message-
| From: Joerg Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:37 AM
| To: FOP User
| Subject: Re: Subject: text colums
|
|
| Lauren Commons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I am producing pdfs that will have a bullet list that
| I want to display in two columns, like newspaper
| columns. I won't know in advance how many items will
| be in the list.
|
| I suppose you have
| ...
| liItem1/li
| liItem2/li
| liItem3/li
| ...
| and want to display
| o Item1 o Item3
| o Item2
| or perhaps
| o Item1 o Item2
| o Item3
| (note the difference)
|
| This is not easy to achieve. A first shot would be to use
| a two column table distribute the list items equally between
| the columns. You have also to decide whether you want to use
| one row in the table or a row for every pair of items.
| A sample XSLT snippet (untested):
| fo:table table-layout=fixed
| fo:table-column column-width=proportional-column-width()/
| fo:table-column column-width=proportional-column-width()/
| fo:table-body
| fo:table-row
| xsl:for-each select=li[position() div 2=0]
| fo:table-cell
| xsl:apply-templates
| /fo:table-cell
| fo:table-cell
| xsl:apply-templates select=following-sibling:li
| /fo:table-cell
| /xsl:for-each
| /fo:table-row
| /fo:table-body
| /fo:table
| This will generate the secont variant, with one row. If you want
| multiple rows, move the fo:table-row into the xsl:for-each
| The first variant is a bit harder to get.
|
| Whether the table solution matches your expectations is up to
| you. Having two columns with items flowing from the first
| to the second column to fill a minimal area seems to be much
| harder unless you want to have the whole page in two columns.
|
| Ask on the XSL list for more ideas.
|
| J.Pietschmann
