FO / Tex

[Eric SCHAEFFER <es...@posterconseil.com>]

While working on images, I was wondering something :

should FOP (and FO process) behave like Tex ?
That is : permit floating objects (images, tables, figures, etc.).
I don't know if it's written in the spec, but if these objects can't fit in
the portion left of the page, can FOP go on rendering text until a new page
and then render the object ?

It could be very cool...


Eric.

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Re: FO / Tex

[Arved Sandstrom <Ar...@chebucto.ns.ca>]

The XSL spec has fo:float and fo:footnote out-of-line objects. The former 
behaves like the things we are familiar with in TeX. From clause 6.10.2:

The fo:float formatting object holds a sequence formatting objects that is 
to be presented in a conditional-area at the top of an instance of a region 
with the same name as the region into which the fo:float flow object is 
distributed. The content of the fo:float flow object is not placed where the 
flow object is distributed, but is instead placed, out-of-line, in the next 
instance of the region with the same name for which there is room for the 
content of the fo:float. Such content might be a figure, a table or other 
chunk of content that is to be kept together and need not disrupt the flow 
of the content around it.

Arved

At 09:54 AM 4/19/00 +0200, Eric SCHAEFFER wrote:
>While working on images, I was wondering something :
>
>should FOP (and FO process) behave like Tex ?
>That is : permit floating objects (images, tables, figures, etc.).
>I don't know if it's written in the spec, but if these objects can't fit in
>the portion left of the page, can FOP go on rendering text until a new page
>and then render the object ?
>
>It could be very cool...
>
>
>Eric.
>
>_______________________________________
>
>Eric SCHAEFFER
>eschaeffer@posterconseil.com
>
>POSTER CONSEIL
>118 rue de Tocqueville
>75017 PARIS
>FRANCE
>Tel. : 33-140541058
>Fax : 33-140541059
>_______________________________________
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Missed us in Orlando? Make it up with ApacheCON Europe in London!
>------------------------- http://ApacheCon.Com --------------------
>
>
>