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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Side by side formatting
I was afraid of that. Is there a way to dynamically calculate the length of the label in the stylesheet and decide between a list-block title or a block title based on that? Marcel -- Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi, > I think you are expecting too much of fo:list-block. Each list-item > creates two block areas. The label's area is set to the width of the > provisional-distance-between-starts minus the width of > provisional-label-separation. The body area is the available column > width minus the provisional-distance-between-starts. The FO processor > then fills each area with its contents. If the label text is wider than > its area, then it will try to break or hyphenate it. If it has no > spaces and hyphenation isn't allowed or doesn't work, then the text will > overflow its area. The filling of the body area is similar. Neither > takes into account an overflow from the other area, which is why you get > overlap. > > To prevent such overflow, the label area needs to be made wide enough to > fit the label. Unfortunately, there is no auto-fitting feature in > XSL-FO 1.0, so it requires guessing based on the string length. You can > run into similar problems with numbered lists that reach over 99 items. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > bobs@sagehill.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Tromp" > <marcel_docbook@tromp.org> > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:22 PM > Subject: [docbook-apps] Side by side formatting > > >> I am using the side by side formatting example from >> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html. >> >> I use this to have section numbers indent left from the body. This >> properly indents the section title to >> provisional-distance-between-starts. However, I was expecting the >> section title to be separated from the label by >> provisional-label-separation if the label is longer than >> provisional-distance-between-starts. >> >> The latter is not happing and the label overwrites part of the section >> title. With that, I am getting the following warnings from fop: >> WARNING: Line 1 of a paragraph overflows the available area by >> 19549mpt. (fo:block, location: 3/355188) >> >> Is this a problem with fop (I am using 0.95), or am I misunderstanding >> the side by side formatting behaviour? >> >> Marcel >> -- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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