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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Koes, Derrick" <De...@Smith-Nephew.com> on 2002/07/02 17:52:54 UTC

table column width problem

If I create a line of text and put it in a table cell, it adheres to the
column-width as long as it has spaces.

However, if I create a line of text without spaces it goes far beyond the
column-width setting.

Does anyone know why this happens?

Re: table column width problem

Posted by Chuck Paussa <Ch...@systems.dhl.com>.

Koes, Derrick wrote:

> If I create a line of text and put it in a table cell, it adheres to 
> the column-width as long as it has spaces.
>
> However, if I create a line of text without spaces it goes far beyond 
> the column-width setting.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens?
>
FOP has no idea how to break the text unless you have defined a 
hyphenation pattern.
Here's the example from hyphen.fo in your examples directory:

      <fo:block font-size="12pt"
                font-family="sans-serif"
                line-height="15pt"
                space-after.optimum="3pt"
                text-align="justify"
                language="en"
                country="US"
                hyphenate="true"
                hyphenation-push-character-count="2"
                hyphenation-remain-character-count="2">

Chuck