Re: from FOP list: centered tables

[Roland <ro...@netquant.com.br>]

At 12:26 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Did you ever get a solution to this?

Yes,
what we did was the following:
A is the table you want to center. The width of A is w-a. The width of the 
page is w-p.
Now make a new table B with 3 columns.
The width of the columns of B are:
1 & 3 column: (w-p - w-a)/2
2 column: w-a.

Let the 1. and 3. column be empty and put the table A into the second 
column and it will make a centered table.

Cumbersome, but it works...

And we let the stylesheet do all the calculations. Just make the following 
template and call it using <xsl:call-template ...>
The template will not only center tables but any "object":

<xsl:template name="makeCenteredPage">
   <xsl:param name="pageW"/>   <!-- the page width -->
   <xsl:param name="objW"/>  <!-- the object width -->
   <xsl:param name="obj"/>  <!-- the object itself, will be called trough a 
xsl:apply template -->

   <!-- make a Table with one centered column -->
   <xsl:message>
     makeCentered:
     objW = <xsl:value-of select="$objW"/>
     pageW = <xsl:value-of select="$pageW"/>
   </xsl:message>
   <xsl:comment> Centered table </xsl:comment>
   <fo:table>
     <fo:table-column column-width="{($pageW - $objW) div 2}cm" 
background-color="#ffffff"/>
     <fo:table-column column-width="{$objW}cm" background-color="#ffffff"/>
     <fo:table-column column-width="{($pageW - $objW) div 2}cm" 
background-color="#ffffff"/>
     <fo:table-body>
       <fo:table-row>
         <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" vertical-align="middle"
                 background-color="#ffffff" space-before="27pt" 
padding-top="2pt"
                 padding-bottom="2pt" padding-left="15pt">
         </fo:table-cell>
         <fo:table-cell vertical-align="middle" background-color="#ffffff">
           <xsl:apply-templates select="$obj"/>
         </fo:table-cell>
         <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" vertical-align="middle"
                   background-color="#ffffff" space-before="27pt" 
padding-top="2pt"
                   padding-bottom="2pt" padding-left="15pt">
         </fo:table-cell>
       </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
   </fo:table>
</xsl:template>

Hope it helps you...

Roland


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