AW: AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-12-01 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi everybody, > This is normal and due to the 'orphans' and 'widows' properties... > Errr... no, this is not normal at all actually. There's enough space to put > the last two lines of the 'L' paragraph on the first column. > And, speaking about that, the 'orphans' property on the 'U' paragraph

Re: AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Bowditch
Georg Datterl wrote: Hi Vincent, At that point, you may want to create a bug report on FOP's bugzilla and attach a patch with your current modifications, so that we can have a look at it and provide you with early guidance. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fop Are

AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-30 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Vincent, > At that point, you may want to create a bug report on FOP's bugzilla > and attach a patch with your current modifications, so that we can > have a look at it and provide you with early guidance. > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fop Are there any guidelin

AW: AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-28 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Vincent (and others, if somebody wants to join, it's not a private conversation), > > I have no idea, how elastic space is defined, but I guess, > > orphan-widow-control would then take care of that problem? I'll have to > > check but I think, > > there's no case, where a wide block in a tw

Re: AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-28 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Georg, Georg Datterl wrote: Hi Vincent, Hmmm. The diagnostic is quite easy: the first column doesn't contain any elastic space and doesn't exactly fill the page; so there's enough room for the spanning block to squeeze in one line of content, instead of being deferred to the next page. S

AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-27 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Vincent, If the wide block is in the first column, the result looks like I expected it, but then I had a wide block in the second column and instead of moving to the next page, I got balancing again: >>> I couldn't reproduce that. Can you please post the FO file showing the >>

AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-27 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Vincent, > > Indeed, it worked on a small example, but a bigger example gave me an > > unexpected heart attack. > Maybe you shouldn't take this task too seriously. I'd hate that FOP causes > you health problems ;-) You have no idea how many health problems I have already avoided just because

AW: empty columns on multi-column-page

2008-11-26 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Vincent, I started to fool around a bit with the FOP source code and your suggestion: > I've just had a quick look and there seems to be almost nothing to do on the > layout side (which is good news). You just have to > go on l.111 of org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker (handleSpanChange m