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Re: Stylesheets customizations to play nice with FOP


On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:22:35AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:48:37AM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote:
> > 
> > Bob replies to:
> > >>>>>
> > > 1) Page headers and footers aren't centered. Sorry, I don't
> > >    know how to fix it.
> > <<<<<
> > 
> > with
> > 
> > >>>>>
> > Perhaps the problem is the use of the
> > proportional-column-width() function in your
> > customized header.table template?  Is that function
> > supported in FOP?  You might need to use percentage
> > or fixed column widths (ugh).
> > 
> > You might try turning on
> > table borders in your header.table to test where
> > the cell boundaries are.  The center cell uses
> > text-align="center", but if the cell itself is
> > not centered on the page, then the text won't be
> > centered on the page.
> > <<<<<
> > 
> > I'm having a similar problem with PassiveTex, but it's the separator
> > lines--not the headers and footers themselves--that are not centered. For
> > an article, I get a header with a separator line ending just one space to
> > the right of the title. Something like this:
> > 
> > 
> >                                  Sample Article Title
> >       ________________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> > The footer line ends aligns with the header line. Is this a problem with my
> > DocBook or PassiveTeX? Any idea how to get those lines centered?
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is a PassiveTeX bug.  I included it
> in a list of problems I sent to Sebastian Rahtz.
> 
> Some but not all of my headers in one document have this
> problem.  The header/footer rules are drawn as borders on
> one edge of the fo:table that is used to format the line.
> The current PT seems to have some problems with table
> borders, as the left border on tables is also missing. 

Forgot to mention that you can turn off the header and
footer rule lines by setting the stylesheet parameters
'header.rule' and/or 'footer.rule' to zero.

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