RE: [xep-support] Problem on left align of table on page vs hanging indent

Yep, PSMI is what I fell onto back then. It's the only real piece of
code that seems to allow for this kinda of processing; on the other
hand, I really think that XSL:FO should provide better facilities for
something like this; It's simply too complex for something so simple;
dynamic generation of XSL:FO page geometries should be a given. From
what I recall though PSMI either didn't completely do the trick or I
didn't get to fully implement the solution. I'll have to give it a go
pretty soon again when I get a little bit of time to work on it.

Cheers!

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-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:20 AM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: RE: [xep-support] Problem on left align of table on page vs
hanging indent

At 2007-07-10 07:32 -0700, Michaud, Jean-Francois wrote:
>Hehehe, good luck with that. At least you won't be bored for awhile
;-).

:{)}

>If I find an easy way to do this, I'll let you know. In the meantime,
>I'm afraid we're not missing anything. XSL:FO technology is simply not
>advanced enough to accommodate certain features that we would find more

>intuitive. Functional language is nice collateral damagewise but
>incrementing a counter by having to process recursively is getting old.

I see it more as a result of the "arms-length" relationship between
transformation and formatting.

>You're head will explode if you get into landscape tables set via an
>attribute ;-). The only solution available around (no, rotating a table

>90 degrees or 270 degrees doesn't work; at the time I was looking,
>roughly about a year ago) is to reprocess the whole document
>recursively to generate correct XSL:FO page templates based on a
>portrait or landscape attribute a table might have.
>
>I'd really rather not think about it actually hehehe ;-).

Oh! I've been there and done that! Have you see Crane's Page Sequence
Master Interleave (PSMI)? It is a free resource available on our web
site. It is an example of "adding a semantic to
XSL-FO": when you detect the attribute for landscape geometry and you
need a dynamic change in the page sequence, you just put that page
sequence in a <psmi:page-sequence> element. The output is
post-processed by supplied XSLT stylesheets to convert the embedded page
sequence into a sibling page sequence of pure XSL-FO for any engine to
then support.

I've been told by a number of people that this has been very helpful ...
I don't know everyone who has downloaded it but I gather it gets a lot
of use.

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

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