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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
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