Re: [xep-support] Intermediate format question

Thanks for the suggestion. But as far as I am aware the attribute does
not get transferred to the intermediate XEP format file. That file only
contains the actual text that goes into the pdf file.

Regards,

Teus.

Geoff Levner wrote:
> It would be simpler to put "_elastic_" into an attribute of your
> fo:block, wouldn't it? Then you would not have to worry about XEP
> processing it. You might use the "id" attribute, for example.
>
> Geoff
>
> On 3 Oct 2006, at 07:36, Teus Benschop wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've a minor problem here with the XEP intermediate format, and
>> perhaps somebody knows a solution for it.
>>
>> Our scenario is this.
>> We've a text.fo xslfo file, convert that text.fo to XEP intermediate
>> format, using the "-format xep" switch, then we process that
>> text.fo.xep intermediate file, and then produce a pdf out of it.
>>
>> The text.fo file has the word "_elastic_" in it, like so:
>>
>> <fo:block font-size="12pt" text-align="left" space-before="0mm"
>> space-after="0mm" start-indent="0mm" end-indent="0mm"
>> text-indent="0mm" span="all" intrusion-displace="line" widows="2"
>> orphans="2">
>> _elastic_
>> </fo:block>
>>
>> The word "_elastic_" triggers our processor and cause it do take some
>> actions.
>>
>> Depending on the font chosen, at times the word "_elastic_" gets into
>> the text.fo.xep intermediate file as one whole word, but sometimes it
>> gets divided into two bits, like so:
>>
>> <xep:text value="_elas" x="56693" y="774889" width="24528"/>
>> <xep:text value="tic_" x="81221" y="774889" width="18000"/>
>>
>> If the words is available as one whole word, our processor finds it,
>> and handles it properly, but if the processor finds "_elas" and then
>> "tic_" later, it does not recognize this as a special word to be
>> handled, does not get triggered, and therefore does nothing, and the
>> "_elastic" appears in the output pdf, which is undesired.
>>
>> My question is whether there are any instructions to be given to XEP
>> to put some text as one unit into the intermediate file, like so:
>>
>> <xep:text value="_elastic_" x="56693" y="774889" width="42528"/>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Teus Benschop
>> Free Presbyterian Church
>
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Received on Tue Oct 3 01:31:23 2006