Force maximum table-cell height?

["Berg, Philip C" <pc...@indiana.edu>]

Hi,

This problem seems to have already been answered, but I wanted to make sure. I'm using fop-0.20.4. I found this in the archive:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=102555220521732&w=2
It's slightly different then what I need: I have xml data that populates a table-cell but I always want that table cell to be a certain size (fixed). This happens to be big enough to capture 2 lines of each ~11 characters of stuff each (I say roughly 11 characters since it's variable font). With the height attribute I seem to be able to enforce a minimum height, but not a maximum height. Is that normal or a FOP issue? Based on the post above I got the impression that it also should cap a maximum height, but maybe I misunderstand.

If it is a bug, does that related to this:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2964
... the reason I ask is because I can't seem to look at the attachment. When I click on the attachment Mozilla tries to download showattachment.cgi (is that a bug? :) Seems like the web server is missing CGI extensions, huh?).

Finally if FOP does indeed not support any type of maximum height, somebody have an idea/pointer of how I can achieve what I want? In particular considering that I deal with variable fonts. I probably should take that question to an xsl:fo mailing list, sorry. But I suspect they'll just tell me to use height or max-height... so maybe somebody has a hint here. :)

thanks a lot,
Philip


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RE: Force maximum table-cell height?

[Roland Neilands <rn...@pulsemining.com.au>]

Philip,

> This problem seems to have already been answered, but I 
> wanted to make sure. I'm using fop-0.20.4. I found this in 
> the archive:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=102555220521732&w=2
> It's slightly different then what I need: I have xml data 
> that populates a table-cell but I always want that table cell 
> to be a certain size (fixed). This happens to be big enough 
> to capture 2 lines of each ~11 characters of stuff each (I 
> say roughly 11 characters since it's variable font). With the 
> height attribute I seem to be able to enforce a minimum 
> height, but not a maximum height. Is that normal or a FOP 
> issue? Based on the post above I got the impression that it 
> also should cap a maximum height, but maybe I misunderstand.

Sounded exactly like what you described, but as it said, it's not
implemented yet. 

> Finally if FOP does indeed not support any type of maximum 
> height, somebody have an idea/pointer of how I can achieve 
> what I want? In particular considering that I deal with 
> variable fonts.

A Q&D for you (worked as described on 0.20.5.rc2). If this is the only thing
in the table, just use the block-container instead. Width should match
column width & both heights are required. Extra lines are truncated:

<fo:table-cell height="24pt" >                
  <fo:block-container height="24pt" width="1.5cm">
    <fo:block>
      <xsl:value-of select="LineDescription"/></fo:block>
  </fo:block-container>
</fo:table-cell>

Cheers,
Roland