Dictionary / phone book page formatting

[Chuck Paussa <cp...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Some guy asked how to do a dictionary type page with first and last
entries on the top-left and top-right of the page. So, I've attached an
example of how. There are some ugly bits in this that I need cleared up
before I can give you a clean example.

Questions, because I'm confused. 

1. <fo:retrieve-marker> is an fo:block type container which acts as if
it is not contained in its containing block. When I render this, the
only way I can position the retrieve-marker is in another table cell.
Is this how it is supposed to act? Can I tell it to inherit some
property so that it will act like text instead of a block? I noticed
that it will display even if it is not contained in a block. This is
different from the behavior exhibited by fo:page-number.

2. Notice on page 2. first-including-carryover = Ele even though it is
the block named Ten whose carryover is the first on the page

3. On Page 3, the before-region doesn't render, even the static text is
gone. I'm guessing because there are no blocks fitting any of the
retrieve-marker conditions. I'm also confused by the message [WARN]:
Some static content could not fit in the area. on page 3.

I'm using FOP-0.20.2

Chuck

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