From: G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 16:52:18 PDT
At 2003-09-24 17:54 -0500, Louis Meigret wrote:
>I would like to emulate an inline table that could be mixed in the midst
>of a text paragraph.
>...
>Mandate for __________________ , a registered doctor.
> (name of person)
This is one of the purposes for <inline-container> so that one can add
block-level constructs in the middle of an inline.
The following is how I would approach it if I had inline container:
<block xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
Mandate for
<inline-container alignment-adjust="-1.5em">
<table>
<table-body>
<table-row border-after-style="solid" border-after-width="1pt">
<table-cell><block> </block></table-cell>
</table-row>
<table-row>
<table-cell><block>(name of person)</block></table-cell>
</table-row>
</table-body>
</table>
</inline-container>, a registered doctor.
</block>
Unfortunately, XEP doesn't yet support <inline-container> but I would think
it would be on their list of things to do.
So, then the next thing I tried successfully in XSL-FO was the use of an
auto-width table:
<table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<table-body>
<table-row>
<table-cell number-rows-spanned="2">
<block>Mandate for </block>
</table-cell>
<table-cell border-after-style="solid" border-after-width="1pt">
<block> </block>
</table-cell>
<table-cell number-rows-spanned="2">
<block>, a registered doctor.</block>
</table-cell>
</table-row>
<table-row>
<table-cell><block>(name of person)</block></table-cell>
</table-row>
</table-body>
</table>
But, again unfortunately, XEP doesn't yet support auto-width tables ...
this probably isn't as high on their list as the inline-container ... but
then I'm just speculating based on a perceived complexity by a non-implementer.
So, if you take the second approach and hardwire your column and table
widths to precisely fit your predetermined text ... then you will get the
effect you want in XEP. But I don't think you can yet get the effect when
you have arbitrarily long sequences before and after the two-high bit.
I hope this helps.
................. Ken
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