Re: [xep-support] XEP 4.3 breaks a block in the middle

From: Martin Holmes <mholmes@uvic.ca>
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 09:38:19 PDT

Many thanks for the quick and helpful response, especially on the weekend!

Cheers,
Martin

Alexander Peshkov wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> You have hit a know limitation of XEP (it was already discussed on
> this list, see http://www.renderx.net/lists/xep-support/3239.html)
> In your FO there is and empty block with keep-with-next on it after
> the problematic section:
> <fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="serif" space-before="0.5cm">
> <fo:block font-size="16pt" font-weight="bold" padding="0.25cm" keep-with-next.within-column="always" keep-with-next.within-page="always"/>
> </fo:block>
>
>
> Due to peculiarity in keep processing in XEP keeps from the empty
> block may be applied to the preceding element. In your case the whole
> section block is glued to the next section so XEP tries to satisfy
> this constraint and carries two lines of last paragraph text (as
> prescribed by 'widows') to the next page.
> In order to circumvent this problem you have to remove empty block
> completely or fill it up with empty fo:leader (not that in the latter
> case you will have an additional gap on the page - your block has
> space-before attribute).
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
> RenderX
>
> MH> Sorry, quick correction: the FO code is here:
>
> MH> <http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/martin/test/panel_202_best.fo>
>
> MH> Cheers,
> MH> Martin
> MH> At 03:07 PM 13/05/2005, you wrote:
>
>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I'm seeing a very odd problem with XEP 4.3, where it seems to arbitrarily
>>>decide to have a column break in the middle of a paragraph, when there is
>>>lots of space remaining in the existing column. The problem is shown here:
>>>
>>><http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/martin/test/panel_202_best.pdf>
>>>
>>>where a paragraph is broken between pages 2 and 3, for no reason. The FO
>>>code for the document is here:
>>>
>>><http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/martin/test/panel_202_best.pdf>
>>>
>>>Can anyone suggest what might be causing this?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Martin
>>>
>>>______________________________________
>>>Martin Holmes
>>>University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
>>>mholmes@uvic.ca
>>>martin@mholmes.com
>>>mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com
>>>http://www.mholmes.com
>>>http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/
>>>http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com
>>>
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