Yep, that's what I need. I was pretty sure that FOP didn't support it, but hey, neither does any other XSL 1.0 compliant tool.
I think I will just approximate the lengths of lines (thanks to JP's comment) unless it proves woefully inaccurate. If it does, I think I may try and write a patch to add support for multi-column blocks, unless wrapping my head around the FOP maintenance code proves too time-consuming. My last resort would be to manipulate various FOP objects in my code to use FOP's line-length algorithm.
Thanks for your help, in any event.
Wait a minute. I don't know yet how it's done, but here's something useful: http://www.renderx.com/Tests/columns.fo
It shows how to create a multi-columned whatchamacallit.
Running it in FOP doesn't output exactly what is output with RenderX's XEP (not to mention the few errors you get w/ fonts, footnotes & such), however pages 3-8 (or 3-5 in AWT?) does have flowing text among the 2, 3 or 5 columns! The PDF I generated with FOP-0.20.4 looks pretty close to what was generated w/ RenderX:
http://www.renderx.com/Tests/columns.pdf
Pretty neat! -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc
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