Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-16 Thread J.Pietschmann
Lance Frohman wrote: How would you handle "Catering for proportional fonts"? We are using substring(...) with a proportional font, and it looks bad. This is to be expected, because of the unequal character widths. The character widths (in millipoints) for the standard PDF fonts are available in th

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-16 Thread Lance Frohman
; Subject: Re: Control of long words inside a table cell > > > Filippos Slavik wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Actually I have the opposite problem. I'm too having some long > words inside a > > table cell, but since my table-columns have a fixed width I &g

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-16 Thread Filippos Slavik
On Sunday 16 June 2002 18:10, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Filippos Slavik wrote: > > Hello all, > The XSLFO specification provides the wrap-option and the > overflow property to control this. Unfortunately, FOP > doesn't yet implement the overflow="hidden" setting. > You can try to clip long content at

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-16 Thread J.Pietschmann
Filippos Slavik wrote: Hello all, Actually I have the opposite problem. I'm too having some long words inside a table cell, but since my table-columns have a fixed width I would like to have the content of the cell to be truncated in the case of a "long word". What I did was to use to dissa

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-16 Thread Filippos Slavik
Hello all, Actually I have the opposite problem. I'm too having some long words inside a table cell, but since my table-columns have a fixed width I would like to have the content of the cell to be truncated in the case of a "long word". What I did was to use to dissallow the cell's conten

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-13 Thread J.Pietschmann
Roland Neilands wrote: This is excellent. NB: I would use a fixed width font for this kind of exercise, eg: font-family="Courier" otherwise there is several cm variation over 30 12pt char between > average & em spacing. Unlikely, but ... The character width tables are available as XML in the FOP so

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-13 Thread Roland Neilands
y V Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Control of long words inside a table cell > > > You could also use this template to

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-12 Thread Mathy V Arumugam
You could also use this template to split a line at a certain position. Mathy Roland Neilands wrote: > >>

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-12 Thread pkrishnaswami
of long words inside a table cell > So I guess if its a single word like a full package name in > Java where the > package name is wider than the width of the cell, I will > have to force > breaking up the package name with white space. Is this right? If hyphenation isn't app

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread Roland Neilands
> So I guess if its a single word like a full package name in > Java where the > package name is wider than the width of the cell, I will > have to force > breaking up the package name with white space. Is this right? If hyphenation isn't appropriate & you can't widen the column, then yes. From a

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread Venu Reddy
try this: blah blah blah -Original Message- From: pkrishnaswami [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Control of long words inside a table cell So I guess if its a single word like a full package

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread Michael J. Godfrey
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RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread pkrishnaswami
] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Control of long words inside a table cell >> Use > Thanks for the response; I tried this option but I did not > see a difference; > the text continues to over-flow the table cell width. I saw this when t

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread Roland Neilands
>> Use > Thanks for the response; I tried this option but I did not > see a difference; > the text continues to over-flow the table cell width. I saw this when testing too. Any whitespace would cause the cell contents to wrap though. You could search the examples and/or archive for solutions invo

RE: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread pkrishnaswami
long words inside a table cell Use Chuck pkrishnaswami wrote: >We are using FOP to publish our documents in PDF. Some of the contents in >the table cell contain long words; eg: full name of java classes where the >length of the package is wider than the cell\column width; The co

Re: Control of long words inside a table cell

2002-06-11 Thread Chuck Paussa
Use Chuck pkrishnaswami wrote: We are using FOP to publish our documents in PDF. Some of the contents in the table cell contain long words; eg: full name of java classes where the length of the package is wider than the cell\column width; The contents of these long words spills beyond the table ce