I was afraid of that.
Is there a way to dynamically calculate the length of the label in the
stylesheet and decide between a list-block title or a block title based
on that?
Marcel
--
Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi,
> I think you are expecting too much of fo:list-block. Each list-item
> creates two block areas. The label's area is set to the width of the
> provisional-distance-between-starts minus the width of
> provisional-label-separation. The body area is the available column
> width minus the provisional-distance-between-starts. The FO processor
> then fills each area with its contents. If the label text is wider than
> its area, then it will try to break or hyphenate it. If it has no
> spaces and hyphenation isn't allowed or doesn't work, then the text will
> overflow its area. The filling of the body area is similar. Neither
> takes into account an overflow from the other area, which is why you get
> overlap.
>
> To prevent such overflow, the label area needs to be made wide enough to
> fit the label. Unfortunately, there is no auto-fitting feature in
> XSL-FO 1.0, so it requires guessing based on the string length. You can
> run into similar problems with numbered lists that reach over 99 items.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Tromp"
> <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:22 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Side by side formatting
>
>
>> I am using the side by side formatting example from
>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html.
>>
>> I use this to have section numbers indent left from the body. This
>> properly indents the section title to
>> provisional-distance-between-starts. However, I was expecting the
>> section title to be separated from the label by
>> provisional-label-separation if the label is longer than
>> provisional-distance-between-starts.
>>
>> The latter is not happing and the label overwrites part of the section
>> title. With that, I am getting the following warnings from fop:
>> WARNING: Line 1 of a paragraph overflows the available area by
>> 19549mpt. (fo:block, location: 3/355188)
>>
>> Is this a problem with fop (I am using 0.95), or am I misunderstanding
>> the side by side formatting behaviour?
>>
>> Marcel
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