Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions
I'm relatively new to using FOP. I've got a document working fairly well, but am having a difficult time doing a few things that I would have thought to be simple. 1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a xsl-region-before. Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always printed at the very top of the page. fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before margin-top=2cm margin-left=2cm margin-right=2cm 2. Cannot set the FONT of a fo:retrieve-marker used in a xsl-region-before. It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. fo:block keep-together=auto font-size=8pt fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=mrkState retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block 3. Cannot set the height of a fo:leader to a small amount. The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. fo:block fo:leader leader-pattern=rule space-after.optimum=4pt space-before=0pt line-height=1pt/ /fo:block 4. Problem using keep-with-next across page and column breaks of multi-column pages. Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better controlling KEEPS in a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; however, the KEEP-WITH NEXT does not appear to work. Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul Thibodeaux
RE: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions
1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a xsl-region-before. Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always printed at the very top of the page. fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before margin-top=2cm margin-left=2cm margin-right=2cm I think margin is a property of the page-master (correct me if I'm wrong), but you are right in that it doesn't seem to work on the region-before, even in the examples provided with FOP. Probably a bug. 2. Cannot set the FONT of a fo:retrieve-marker used in a xsl-region-before. It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. fo:block keep-together=auto font-size=8pt fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=mrkState retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block Set this property on the block around fo:marker instead. 3. Cannot set the height of a fo:leader to a small amount. The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. fo:block fo:leader leader-pattern=rule space-after.optimum=4pt space-before=0pt line-height=1pt/ /fo:block Can't comment on the height but haven't noticed the leading whitespace. The properties on preceding block perhaps? What else is on this line? 4. Problem using keep-with-next across page and column breaks of multi-column pages. Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better controlling KEEPS in a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; however, the KEEP-WITH NEXT does not appear to work. Odd, keep-together only worked for me on table-rows, not cells. Haven't used keep-with-next. Regards, Roland
Re: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions
Hi Paul, 1. Try putting your margin-top in your fo:simple-page-master 2. afaik markers aren't supported yet. 3. try using something like: fo:block line-height=3pt fo:leader leader-pattern=rule leader-length=150mm rule-thickness=1pt color=#99/ /fo:block 4. I had to fiddle a lot with preventing page-breaks, you will have to use the workarounds (using table-cells/ keep-together=always) or wait for the major redesign, I reckon. Please correct, if I'm wrong. markus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thibodeaux, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2002 02:25 Betreff: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions I'm relatively new to using FOP. I've got a document working fairly well, but am having a difficult time doing a few things that I would have thought to be simple. 1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a xsl-region-before. Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always printed at the very top of the page. fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before margin-top=2cm margin-left=2cm margin-right=2cm 2. Cannot set the FONT of a fo:retrieve-marker used in a xsl-region-before. It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. fo:block keep-together=auto font-size=8pt fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=mrkState retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block 3. Cannot set the height of a fo:leader to a small amount. The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. fo:block fo:leader leader-pattern=rule space-after.optimum=4pt space-before=0pt line-height=1pt/ /fo:block 4. Problem using keep-with-next across page and column breaks of multi-column pages. Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better controlling KEEPS in a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; however, the KEEP-WITH NEXT does not appear to work. Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul Thibodeaux
RE: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions
I'm actually having the same problems with the keep-with-next property, it just doesn't seem to have ANY effect at all (I tried using it on table rows). There have been some discussions here about this topic, and I think that some people stated that it works, but I still couldn't figure out how they did it... One workaround is to use table-headers, depending on your document structure, you might wanna use this. Kurt -Message d'origine- De : Markus Wiese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi, 26. juin 2002 10:40 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions Hi Paul, 1. Try putting your margin-top in your fo:simple-page-master 2. afaik markers aren't supported yet. 3. try using something like: fo:block line-height=3pt fo:leader leader-pattern=rule leader-length=150mm rule-thickness=1pt color=#99/ /fo:block 4. I had to fiddle a lot with preventing page-breaks, you will have to use the workarounds (using table-cells/ keep-together=always) or wait for the major redesign, I reckon. Please correct, if I'm wrong. markus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thibodeaux, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2002 02:25 Betreff: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions I'm relatively new to using FOP. I've got a document working fairly well, but am having a difficult time doing a few things that I would have thought to be simple. 1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a xsl-region-before. Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always printed at the very top of the page. fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before margin-top=2cm margin-left=2cm margin-right=2cm 2. Cannot set the FONT of a fo:retrieve-marker used in a xsl-region-before. It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. fo:block keep-together=auto font-size=8pt fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=mrkState retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block 3. Cannot set the height of a fo:leader to a small amount. The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. fo:block fo:leader leader-pattern=rule space-after.optimum=4pt space-before=0pt line-height=1pt/ /fo:block 4. Problem using keep-with-next across page and column breaks of multi-column pages. Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better controlling KEEPS in a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; however, the KEEP-WITH NEXT does not appear to work. Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul Thibodeaux
