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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] two-column problem
Hi, > > The bug is in XSL FO stylesheets, and, in my opinion, it should be > > fixed. If Antenna House demonstrates a non-compliant behaviour, > > it can be used in the corresponding customization level; but the > > base stylesheets should not rely on it. The XSL-FO stylesheets should follow the XSL-FO specification, but they should also make it possible to span columns. As Bob points out, it should be very difficult with the current architecture of stylesheets. > > Looking at the DocBook XSL stylesheets, this could be > tough to implement. The stylesheets often nest fo:blocks > as nested DocBook elements are processed. If a column > span is requested in some nested element (like a table > in a section in a chapter), then all pending blocks would > have to be closed out, a new block started that is a direct > child of the fo:flow, and then start over with the blocks > that follow the table. > > Or the stylesheet architecture would have to change > to a much flatter sequence of blocks that are direct > children of the fo:flow. In any case, this means a lot of work and many changes to the XSL-FO- stylesheets. I You need results fast, I would rely on a "broken" XSL-FO processor and include support for this "broken" processor in the parametrization of the stylesheets. Lars -- Lars Trieloff <lars@trieloff.net> ____________________________________________________________ / Software Documentation Weblog German DocBook Tutorial \ | http://trieloff.net/docbook http://trieloff.net/tutorial | | | | KDocWrite revisited | | <http://trieloff.net/docbook/archive/000354.html> | | SlideML | | <http://trieloff.net/docbook/archive/000352.html> | | Keep track of development using RSS | | <http://trieloff.net/docbook/archive/000351.html> | \___________________________________________________________/
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