RE: Re[2]: [xep-support] RE: Calculate mid-point of column using inherited-property-value

Thank you so much for the help. I was close, but was missing the layout
attributes on the inner table.

What technique do you suggest for right-aligning, after aligning on the
decimal? I assume I would want the third inner cell to be limited to
the width of the value with the maximum precision (and largest
font-size), but I haven't had luck with that, either.

+-------------+
| My Column|
+-------------+
| 123.123 |
| 1.1234|
| 12345.1 |
| 12.12 |
+-------------+

Thanks!
Angela

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Alexei Gagarinov
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:18 PM
To: Angela Williams
Subject: Re[2]: [xep-support] RE: Calculate mid-point of column using
inherited-property-value

Hi Angela,

> You would not need to specify the center (.4in) if
> "inherited-property-value(column-width)" was valid.

The 'inherited-property-value' function does not work with attributes
from the 'table-column' element by its design.

The correct property function for this task is the 'from-table-column'
function.

'from-table-column(column-width)' gives your the desired result for
absolute column widths only, XEP does not support this function for
proportional column widths.

Though it may be considered as a bug in XEP, but this failure with
proportional column widths will save you :)

---
The described layout - centered alignment on a dot - will look poorly
using the proposed design, if table cells have text with different font
properties.
The clearest solution is to wrap each cell into the inner table.
<fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
    <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
    <fo:table-column column-width="1em"/>
    <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
    ...
  </fo:table>
</fo:table-cell>
The first inner cell is for a part of text before a dot, the middle cell
is for dot, and the last cell is for a part of text after dot.
The first inner cell should be "end" aligned, the last cell should be
"start" aligned.
The only drawback of this solution is loss in performance.
> Thanks!
> Angela
Best regards,
  Alexei Gagarinov
RenderX
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