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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Kevin Pearcey <ke...@nipltd.com> on 2002/05/23 12:31:12 UTC

Keeping whites space in blocks

I'm converting documents from XML and some have large gaps of white space
which disappears when rendered by fop.  I have a block such as

<fo:block>                                 Some Text</fo:block>

But the resulting PDF has the text hard to the left margin as though the
input was simply:

<fo:block>Some Text</fo:block>

I assume something is allowing pre-ceding white space to be removed, but I
can see what.

Cheers

Kevin Pearcey

Re: Keeping whites space in blocks

Posted by Keiron Liddle <ke...@aftexsw.com>.

Hi Kevin,

By default whitespace is collapsed. As often there is a lot of excess
whitespace in xml.
if you use this property:
white-space-collapse="false"

it will not collapse the white space.

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 12:31, Kevin Pearcey wrote:
> I'm converting documents from XML and some have large gaps of white space
> which disappears when rendered by fop.  I have a block such as
> 
> <fo:block>                                 Some Text</fo:block>
> 
> But the resulting PDF has the text hard to the left margin as though the
> input was simply:
> 
> <fo:block>Some Text</fo:block>
> 
> I assume something is allowing pre-ceding white space to be removed, but I
> can see what.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Kevin Pearcey