Auto-sized block?

[Richard Evans <ri...@retek.com>]

I want to have a block of text with a border and background colour which is
just wide enough for the text.

 

I've tried fo:block with border and background-color attributes but the
block always seems to extend across the whole page.

 

Any simple solution?

 

Richard

Re: Auto-sized block?

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Richard Evans wrote:

> I want to have a block of text with a border and background colour which 
> is just wide enough for the text.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve tried fo:block with border and background-color attributes but the 
> block always seems to extend across the whole page.

You need to use fo:inline or fo:inline-container for what you want. 
Unfortunately these elements have not been implemented properly, i.e. border 
and background color do not apply, and fo:inline is functionally the same as 
fo:wrapper.

Chris



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Re: Auto-sized block?

[Adam Augusta <ro...@WPI.EDU>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Richard Evans wrote:

> I want to have a block of text with a border and background colour which is
> just wide enough for the text.

The only solution I can think of involves having either a transform or 
simple program run through the XML font metric file and assess the width + 
kerning of your text to come up with an appropriate width for your block 
container.

-Adam



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