Tabs in FOP

[Christian Loock <c....@va-ro.com>]

Hi everybody,

Is there any way of making tabulators in fop? I mean like \t eg.

Best Regard,

Christian Loock

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Re: Tabs in FOP

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

Christian Loock wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Is there any way of making tabulators in fop? I mean like \t eg.

No, XSL-FO has no concept exactly the same as Tabs. However, tabs are 
merely a convenience for putting data into tabluar format. This is also 
the purpose of a table. In some situations it may seem like overkill to 
have to create a table to space out data correctly, but its the only way 
in XSL-FO.

Chris



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Re: Tabs in FOP

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

David Harrison-Jones wrote:

> Hi Christian, I had to find a solution to this myself recently. In the 
> end I used a <fo:leader/> tag without any attributes. It seems to 
> default to approximately the length of a tab space (which could be 
> extended as required). Not exactly a simple ' \t ' but it works.

<fo:leader> does not default to the length of a tab space. The purpose 
of a leader is to fill up any remaining space on a line. I guess you 
could use leaders of a fixed length, i.e. <fo:leader length="1in"/>

Chris



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Re: Tabs in FOP

[David Harrison-Jones <un...@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi Christian, I had to find a solution to this myself recently. In the end I used a <fo:leader/> tag without any attributes. It seems to default to approximately the length of a tab space (which could be extended as required). Not exactly a simple ' \t ' but it works.
 
David

Christian Loock <c....@va-ro.com> wrote:
Hi everybody,

Is there any way of making tabulators in fop? I mean like \t eg.

Best Regard,

Christian Loock

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