RE : Generating ASCII output

[Philippe PITHON <pp...@sigal.fr>]

to want to create pure XSL (for ASCII output) after having made XSLFO is
perhaps not either the good solution!  
 
for example, in XSLFO, if a table overflows on another page, the heading
of page it's repeated 

it's XSLFO which automatically calculates the number of line per page 

But, in pure XSL (for ASCII output), how automatically to put a number
of line per page and to repeat the headings?  
 
Philippe.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Illiano, Vincent [mailto:ILLIA001@onyx.dcri.duke.edu] 
Envoyé : vendredi 7 février 2003 20:35
À : 'fop-user@xml.apache.org'
Objet : RE: Generating ASCII output

Thanks for the tip.  I may indeed end up doing what you suggest - use
Xalan
directly to get text output.  But before I take that plunge, some have
mentioned tweaking textCPI and textLPI.  How is this done?  In the
stylesheet?  If it requires modifying the FOP Java code, I'd rather not
;)

Thanks again, -Vincent


> ----------
> From: 	Chris Bowditch[SMTP:bowditch_chris@hotmail.com]
> Reply To: 	fop-user@xml.apache.org
> Sent: 	Friday, February 07, 2003 12:16 PM
> To: 	fop-user@xml.apache.org
> Subject: 	Re: Generating ASCII output
> 
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> in general terms an XSL Formatting engine is the wrong tool for
generating
> 
> Character Text output.
> 
> A XSL Formatting engine works with precise coordinates for formatting 
> objects, i.e. the text and when this is translated by a Text Renderer,
the
> 
> coordinates must be rounded to the nearest line or character offset.
Hence
> 
> why some lines sit ontop of one another and spacing between characters
is 
> not right.
> 
> I recommend you write an XSL stylesheet that processes your XML
directly
> to 
> Text. Theres no need for an XSL Formatter to work out pre-cise
coordinates
> 
> for your text, only to convert these coordinates back to a character
> driven 
> textual output.
> 
> 
> >From: "Illiano, Vincent" <IL...@onyx.dcri.duke.edu>
> >
> >Hi List,
> >
> >I've built a document-generation system around FOP to create both PDF
and
> >ASCII text documents.  To create the ASCII text output file, I use
the
> -txt
> >command line argument to FOP.  I have a couple of small problems with
the
> >ASCII text output.  Every 30 lines or so in the generated output
file, a
> >line of output is written over the previous output line. The next
line,
> >instead of being written on a new line, is written again over the
> previous
> >line.  Visually, the 2nd line overlays the previous line.  Characters
on 
> >the
> >previous line will show in the output if the next line contains a
space
> at
> >that character position.
> >
> >Another problem I'm seeing is that every so often, there is no space 
> >between
> >words in the text output.
> >
> >So I'm wondering if I've defined my document correctly for ASCII
output.
> 
> >Am
> >I using the wrong font-family, font-size, line-height?  There is are
my
> >current settings:
> >
> ><fo:root text-align="start" font-size="7.2pt" font-family="Courier"
> >line-height="10.4pt">
> ></fo:root>
> >
> >Thanks for any information on this.  -Vincent
> >
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