Re: [xsl] How to Create Side Heads in XSL-FO

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-01-23 08:26 -0500, I wrote:
>At 2002-01-22 18:15 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>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.

In retrospect, I would definitely use either a list or table instead of 
inlining a container because you don't necessarily know the title will fit 
on a single line.  If the title wraps, you need it to wrap at your indent 
location rather than the left margin, which would happen if you had just 
used a container in a block for your chapter number.

At 2002-01-22 18:15 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>I'm just starting out trying to create a production FO style and I'm
>somewhat stymied by how to create "side heads" (a search in the archives
>on "side head" returned no hits).

The appropriate XSLFO terminology would be "start float" or "a float on the 
start side of the flow".  But I don't think any vendor implements this yet.

................ Ken


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