I agree with your opinion about tabs modernity, but it sound strange that a modern tool like FOP isn't backward compatible with a so simple features, consider that most editors support tabs in the rigth way and people still use them
my aim is to have the most simple editor to create a PDF file based on an HTML textarea, obviuosly users should be free to use the poor ways provided by textareas to format a text which I think are only tabs (if the user use copy and paste), white spaces and line breaks
Now I think I will try with different solutions
Regards,
Claudio
Victor Mote wrote:
Claudio De Bernardidoes anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which contains tab characters, and I want to keep them in the resulting PDF. I put the text into a block tag with the attribute white-space-collapse="false" ( the text to be printed hasn't a standard format, so I can't use tables ) It seems that FOP recognize tabs but it simply replaces them with a fixed number of "white spaces" without any kind of consideration about horizontal alignmentI do not know the answer to your direct question. However, AFAIK, the spirit, and probably the letter, of the XSL-FO standard is that tabular data should be put into tables. The tab was invented for typewriters & similar devices, and is inferior to real tables.I may be wrong, but it seems that if you have tabs separating tabular data, that you do indeed have a standard format that could use tables. Consider digging a little deeper along that axis. HTH. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
