On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:06, Claudio De Bernardi wrote: > Hi, > does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters?
TAB characters are replaced with 8 white spaces. Effective width depends on the font used. > 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 ) If you want to indent your text use start-indent attribute of <fo:block>. This is your only option if you 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 alignment You are right. > Thanks in advance > Claudio Hope this helps, Rodolfo -- Rodolfo M. Raya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Heartsome Holdings Pte. Ltd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
