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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Mike Sierra <ms...@mac.com> on 2004/10/11 21:10:32 UTC
side heads?
I'm trying to emulate an existing page layout with FOP, relying heavily
on O'Reilly's XSL-FO book for reference. It's unclear from that book &
from fop's examples how I can do this, so instead I'll shamelessly rely
on your expertise. ;-)
I have rather wide sidebar area (defined as a region-end) into which I
want to float selected blocks, such as callouts & small graphics. It
should flow roughly like this:
+-----------------------+
| . |
| . |
| A . |
| . |
|.......................|
| . |
| . |
| C . B |
| . |
| . |
|.......................|
| . |
| . |
| D . |
| . |
+-----------------------+
The 'float' tag appears to do what I want, but it's not implemented yet
(as of 0.20.5). Is there another way to get this kind of output?
Extra credit -- assuming I can automate this marginal material, can the
area bleed into the region-body, like so?
+-----------------------+
| . |
| . |
| A . |
| . |
|.......................|
| . |
| . |
| C . B |
| . |
| . |
|.......................|
| . |
| . |
| D . |
| . |
+-----------------------+
Thanks in advance,
--Mike
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Re: side heads?
Posted by Mike Sierra <ms...@mac.com>.
On Monday, October 11, 2004, at 05:00 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Mike Sierra wrote:
>> The 'float' tag appears to do what I want, but it's not implemented
>> yet (as of 0.20.5). Is there another way to get this kind of output?
>
> Not if you want to have the side bar in a static content. A blind
> table in the body is the way to go (watch out for the usual memory
> problems).
I was afraid of that. I hacked together a little postprocessor that
wraps all my content inside a large table that straddles the empty
side-head area, and that appears to work fine on a 50-page test file.
I can even bleed material into the main text area by interrupting the
main table with a shorter one that has customized column widths. Ugly
implementation, but 'twill have to do until the <fo:float> tag is
supported. Thanks for the info!
--Mike
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Re: side heads?
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Mike Sierra wrote:
> The 'float' tag appears to do what I want, but it's not implemented yet
> (as of 0.20.5). Is there another way to get this kind of output?
Not if you want to have the side bar in a static content. A blind
table in the body is the way to go (watch out for the usual memory
problems).
> Extra
> credit -- assuming I can automate this marginal material, can the area
> bleed into the region-body, like so?
It depends. Regions may overlap, but content in one region can't
displace content in another region.
J.Pietschmann
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