FOP 0.92 : Text Rendering problem

[Debasish Jana]

Hi:   While trying to render a XSL-FO document to PLAIN_TEXT, the text rendering output shows lots of extra line breaks and spaces.   For example, the following FO snippet….   ----- <fo:table table-layout="fixed" background-color="#FFFFFF" margin-top="0.0pt" margin-bottom="0.0pt" margin-left="0.0pt" margin-right="0.0pt" border-top-width="0.0pt" border-top-color="#FFFFFF" border-bottom-width="0.0pt" border-bottom-color="#FFFFFF" border-left-width="0.0pt" border-left-color="#FFFFFF" border-right-width="0.0pt" border-right-color="#FFFFFF"> <fo:table-column column-width="200.0pt"></fo:table-column>   <fo:table-body>   <fo:table-row height="14pt"> <fo:table-cell background-color="#FFFFFF" padding-top="0.0pt" padding-bottom="0.0pt" padding-left="0.0pt" padding-right="0.0pt" border-top-width="0.0pt" border-top-color="#FFFFFF" border-bottom-width="0.0pt" border-bottom-color="#FFFFFF" border-left-width="0.0pt" border-left-color="#FFFFFF" border-right-width="0.0pt" border-right-color="#FFFFFF" margin-top="0.0pt" margin-bottom="0.0pt" margin-left="0.0pt" margin-right="0.0pt" width="200.0pt" number-columns-spanned="1" number-rows-spanned="1" wrap-option="no-wrap" display-align="before"> <fo:block text-align="left"><fo:inline color="#000000" text-decoration="none" font-family="Tahoma" font-size="10pt" font-weight="normal" font-style="normal">a</fo:inline></fo:block></fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row>   <fo:table-row height="14pt"> <fo:table-cell background-color="#FFFFFF" padding-top="0.0pt" padding-bottom="0.0pt" padding-left="0.0pt" padding-right="0.0pt" border-top-width="0.0pt" border-top-color="#FFFFFF" border-bottom-width="0.0pt" border-bottom-color="#FFFFFF" border-left-width="0.0pt" border-left-color="#FFFFFF" border-right-width="0.0pt" border-right-color="#FFFFFF" margin-top="0.0pt" margin-bottom="0.0pt" margin-left="0.0pt" margin-right="0.0pt" width="200.0pt" number-columns-spanned="1" number-rows-spanned="1" wrap-option="no-wrap" display-align="before"> <fo:block text-align="left"><fo:inline color="#000000" text-decoration="none" font-family="Tahoma" font-size="10pt" font-weight="normal" font-style="normal">a</fo:inline></fo:block></fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row>   <fo:table-row height="14pt"> <fo:table-cell background-color="#FFFFFF" padding-top="0.0pt" padding-bottom="0.0pt" padding-left="0.0pt" padding-right="0.0pt" border-top-width="0.0pt" border-top-color="#FFFFFF" border-bottom-width="0.0pt" border-bottom-color="#FFFFFF" border-left-width="0.0pt" border-left-color="#FFFFFF" border-right-width="0.0pt" border-right-color="#FFFFFF" margin-top="0.0pt" margin-bottom="0.0pt" margin-left="0.0pt" margin-right="0.0pt" width="200.0pt" number-columns-spanned="1" number-rows-spanned="1" wrap-option="no-wrap" display-align="before"> <fo:block text-align="left"><fo:inline color="#000000" text-decoration="none" font-family="Tahoma" font-size="10pt" font-weight="normal" font-style="normal">a</fo:inline></fo:block></fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row>   <fo:table-row height="14pt"> <fo:table-cell background-color="#FFFFFF" padding-top="0.0pt" padding-bottom="0.0pt" padding-left="0.0pt" padding-right="0.0pt" border-top-width="0.0pt" border-top-color="#FFFFFF" border-bottom-width="0.0pt" border-bottom-color="#FFFFFF" border-left-width="0.0pt" border-left-color="#FFFFFF" border-right-width="0.0pt" border-right-color="#FFFFFF" margin-top="0.0pt" margin-bottom="0.0pt" margin-left="0.0pt" margin-right="0.0pt" width="200.0pt" number-columns-spanned="1" number-rows-spanned="1" wrap-option="no-wrap" display-align="before"> <fo:block text-align="left"><fo:inline color="#000000" text-decoration="none" font-family="Tahoma" font-size="10pt" font-weight="normal" font-style="normal">a</fo:inline></fo:block></fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row>   </fo:table-body> </fo:table> ----- Shows the TEXT output as:                                                                                                              a                                                                                                                                                                                                a                                                                                                                                                                                               a                                                                                              Repeating the fo:table-row block as above for multiple times show multiple text lines, when rendered as PLAIN_TEXT, shows ‘a’ in different lines, sometimes with double spacing and sometimes with single spacing   Any clue?   Many thanks in anticipation,   Regards,   Debasish