1. | leader alignment, inline direction. |
| Ken Holman
>In my XSL file I have defined a leader, this leader appears at the bottom
>of a line,
>but I like it to appear at the top of the line.
>I tried the attributes leader-alignment="middle" and
>"top" alignment-baseline="middle" and "top" but it does not work.
To align inline-level constructs, one uses alignment-adjust= ...
The
third leader is drawn at the top of line.
<block>This is a test</block>
<block text-align-last="justify">
ABC<leader leader-pattern="rule"/>DEF
</block>
<block>This is a test</block>
<block text-align-last="justify">
ABC<leader leader-pattern="rule" alignment-adjust="after-edge"/>DEF
</block>
<block>This is a test</block>
<block text-align-last="justify">
ABC<leader leader-pattern="rule" alignment-adjust="before-edge"/>DEF
</block>
<block>This is a test</block>
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2. | Drawing a vertical line |
| Eliot Kimber
You can try using a leader w/in a rotated block container, e.g.: <fo:block-container
position="absolute"
reference-orientation="90"
inline-progression-dimension="15.2cm"
block-progression-dimension="12mm"
>
<fo:block>
<fo:leader leader-pattern="rule"
leader-length="15cm"
rule-style="solid"
rule-thickness="1cm"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
When I render this example with XSL Formatter 2.5 and measure the resulting
rule in Acrobat using PitStop Pro, I get a 15cm x 1cm vertical box. |
3. | Table of contents using fo:leader |
| Eliot Kimber
>I am having a tough time getting the page number references to work in
>a table of contents. Within the contents I am formatting it like this:
>
><fo:block start-indent="10pt"
> text-align-last="justify">Modeling Applications
> <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"
> leader-alignment="reference-area">
> <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="IntroModel"/>
> </fo:leader>
></fo:block>
You've put the page number citation inside the leader. You want this: <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"
leader-alignment="reference-area"/>
<fo:page-number-citation ref-id="IntroModel"/>
fo:leader only uses its content if you specify leader-patter="use-content". |
4. | Dot leaders, as found in index |
| Ken Holman
>Desired layout is
>
>[date][free text field, long or short][leader][amount] I.e. typical
>index formatting.
>
>E.g.
>
>12 Nov short free text ................... 12.50
>13 Nov long free text which causes a wrap
> to here ........................... 13.50
>14 Nov the nasty one with just enough txt.
> 14.50
>
>I.e. the text is just enough to cause the wrap,
> yet the leader is on the first line.
>
>Problem,
>
>How to manage the line wrap.
>...
I recommend using
outdents on both the first and last line, using indents for the wrap edge
positions, thus ensuring your desired gaps in a single formatting object: For example, the simplest would be: <fo:block font-size="18pt" font-weight="normal"
space-before="1em" start-indent="4.5em" text-indent="-4.5em"
text-align-last="justify" end-indent="4.5em"
last-line-end-indent="-4.5em">19NOV<fo:inline
padding-end="1em"/>PAYMENT, THANK YOU. Add lots more
content
to make it flow<fo:leader font-size="8pt"
leader-pattern="use-content">.</fo:leader>600.00</fo:block>
</fo:block>
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5. | Line breaks in the right place |
| Suyoshi Shirotori > When the title is too long to have the text fit, I want the long word
> that is the identifier pushed onto the next line, e.g.:
>
> A very very very very very very very..............................
> .............................ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ:0123456789
Use two fo:leader as follows.
<fo:block start-indent="5pc" text-align="justify"
text-align-last="justify">
<fo:wrapper>
A very very very very very very very very long label</fo:wrapper>
<fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/>
<fo:inline keep-together.within-line="always">
<fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/>
<fo:wrapper>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ:0123456789</fo:wrapper>
</fo:inline>
</fo:block>
> Can you tell me why I need 2 leaders? I want to understand
> the XSL-FO spec. About fo:leader, the spec says that the leader object
> "generates and returns a single normal inline-area". Do lines always
> break between normal inline-areas? fo:leader generates inline-area. Note that it is not line area. Therefore,
line break is not performed in inline area. |
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