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Re: How to Create Side Heads in XSL-FO
- From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:26:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] How to Create Side Heads in XSL-FO
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At 2002-01-22 18:15 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>I think I could do it using either a single-item fo:list or a single-row
>table but I'm thinking that it must be easier and that I'm just missing
>the obvious.
If you regarding <list> and <table> constructs as merely layout facilities
that reflect the kind of layout you need, these do turn out to be the easiest.
>Can anyone offer some advice? For example, I need to format a chapter
>title on a page where the body text is indented to 72pts creating an
>offset column layout. The chapter number is left justified against the
>page edge (left margin) and the title text is in the offset column.
>
>What obvious thing about block placement am I missing in order to see
>how to solve this problem in the simplest way?
Given your use of the phrase "block placement", I suppose you could put an
inline-container in your block, forcing the size to fit your chapter number
and causing the effect of indenting the title text.
But, personally I would have just used either the <list> or <table> because
of its ease of use and because they exist because of their unique layout
functionality and ease, not because of any historical semantic of the
purpose of a list or table information construct.
I hope this helps, Eliot.
............................. Ken
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