Column / character width question

[Ben Galbraith]

Unfortunately, I need to create a block in a region-before that's 
divided into two columns.  As this notion is not supported by XSL 1.0, I 
needn't wonder if FOP supports this in some way.

As FOP does the other 95% of what we need, and no other commercial 
XSL-FO implementation supports the above AFAIK, I will need to implement 
it myself.

My question is: how hard would it be to calculate line width (to figure 
out wrapping issues) on my own using FOP's XML font metafiles (and 
perhaps even FOP's own code)?  I can hard-code line height values and 
such, but without an algorithm to calculate line-wrapping, I can't do 
this on my own.

Or, should I consider writing a patch to FOP that supports 
multi-columnar blocks based on the existing region-body multi-column code?

Thanks,
Ben
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