Re: spanning columns

[A.M.]

On May 25, 2004, at 14:42, Chris Bowditch wrote:
A.M. wrote:
Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to
create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the
next column at a position on the page. I can see it is
possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the
Apache FOP examples, however I need to balance the
text in the columns.
do you mean;
fo:block span=allfo:leader//fo:block
Exactly. I've been toying with this and I don't understand how FOP 
decides where to place the leader- making the break. Is there some 
attribute to shift it up or down without adding unnecessary attributes 
to the leading block ?(I guess I could mark half the text as keep in 
column but I'd rather have more control over the leader.)

Imagine that each column's text
would then touch the bottom border. I would try
this with tables but then I would have to know exactly
where to break the text. Here's some ASCII art of what
I need:
|---|
|Title1 |   |
|paragraph text1|t1 continue|
|text1 text1 tex|d from prev|
|t1 text1 text1 |ious column|
|text1 text1 tex|balanced.  |
|   |   |
|Title2 |   |
|paragraph text2|t2 continue|
|text2 text2 tex|d+balance. |
|---|
Column balancing isnt implemented properly in FOP 0.20.5 I'm afraid. 
You can experiment by adding some white space after the first lot of 
text.
Oy.
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spanning columns

[A.M.]

Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to
create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the
next column at a position on the page. I can see it is
possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the
Apache FOP examples, however I need to balance the
text in the columns. Imagine that each column's text
would then touch the bottom border. I would try
this with tables but then I would have to know exactly
where to break the text. Here's some ASCII art of what
I need:
|---|
|Title1 |   |
|paragraph text1|t1 continue|
|text1 text1 tex|d from prev|
|t1 text1 text1 |ious column|
|text1 text1 tex|balanced.  |
|   |   |
|Title2 |   |
|paragraph text2|t2 continue|
|text2 text2 tex|d+balance. |
|---|
I would appreciate any tips. Thanks.
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Re: spanning columns

[Chris Bowditch]

A.M. wrote:
Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to
create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the
next column at a position on the page. I can see it is
possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the
Apache FOP examples, however I need to balance the
text in the columns. 
do you mean;
fo:block span=allfo:leader//fo:block
Imagine that each column's text
would then touch the bottom border. I would try
this with tables but then I would have to know exactly
where to break the text. Here's some ASCII art of what
I need:
|---|
|Title1 |   |
|paragraph text1|t1 continue|
|text1 text1 tex|d from prev|
|t1 text1 text1 |ious column|
|text1 text1 tex|balanced.  |
|   |   |
|Title2 |   |
|paragraph text2|t2 continue|
|text2 text2 tex|d+balance. |
|---|
Column balancing isnt implemented properly in FOP 0.20.5 I'm afraid. You can 
experiment by adding some white space after the first lot of text.

Chris

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