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Re: Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying length
- From: "Joerg Heinicke" <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:49:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying length
- References: <NDBBIIJFMMOPLGDAMEALKEKMDCAA.mla@gleim.com>
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Are you using FOP too? Because I had a few months ago the same problem with
0.20. It was better with FOP 0.19. Maybe give XEP (www.renderx.com) a try.
Or does anybody know an attribute to align the lines at lineend?
Joerg
> Yep, simple enough and you're right on the money. However, all the lines
> doesn't want to align at line end nice and evenly. It's not off by a
whole
> lot, but just doesn't look quite pretty enough.
> thank you,
>
> > Hello Matthew,
> >
> > in FO you can find <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots">
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_leader). I know this from using
> > DocBook-XSLs
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935)
> > from Norman Walsh. It's used there for the TOC (autotoc.xsl). I don't
know
> > if this is helpful in your case too.
> >
> > Joerg
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > > First off, I'd like to say that this list is so good that in
> > most cases if
> > I
> > > want to figure out how to do something I only have to search the
e-mail
> > > folder I save the messages in and, wham!, I have a solution (or
> > a least a
> > > partial one) and I usually just collect the messages and lurk
> > (sounds kind
> > > of selfish when I write it out like this, however time accountability
at
> > > work prevents me from participating here as often as I'd like
> > or at all).
> > > Those of you who answer most of the questions exhibit true altruism
(at
> > > least, it seems that way from my perspective). Just think, if
> > governments
> > > could help each other the same way how much nicer a planet this
> > would be.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, my own question:
> > > 1) A table with two cells on each row
> > > 2) The left cell contains text aligned to start with varying number of
> > > characters, hence leaving a variable empty space to the right
> > of the text.
> > > 3) How can I fill the space with .... (dotted line) while at
> > the same time
> > > not exceeding the cell width/boundary? This is important since
> > it will be
> > > rendered to pdf with FOP (which usually complains if cell boundaries
are
> > > exceeded).
> > >
> > > I vaguely recall this being discussed at some time in the past,
> > maybe here
> > > or in the FOP list, but I have no idea what I'd be searching the
archive
> > for
> > > in this case, so I figured I ask again and maybe someone could give
some
> > > example code or point to the thread if there was one.
> > >
> > > heap big thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Matthew L. Avizinis <mailto:mla@gleim.com>
> > > Gleim Publications, Inc.
> > > 4201 NW 95th Blvd.
> > > Gainesville, FL 32606
> > > (352)-375-0772 ext. 101
> > > www.gleim.com <http://www.gleim.com>
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