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Subject: Re: FO questions about blocks in table-cells
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:15:45 -0400

At 2002-06-12 12:12 +0200, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:

1. How do I align a block to the bottom of a table-cell?

Use display-align="after" for the cell ... see the example below.

2. I've noticed that some fonts are smaller than others. Maybe those
smaller fonts have more space around them. I'd like to see the actual size
of each glyph. My attempt to do this was to add an <fo:inline> with
'background-color' on each character. Here's the result:

http://www.xml.se/temp/xsl/char1.pdf

The glyph width seem to appear, but I wonder if the height is the actual
glyph height or the glyph height + whatever amount of space XSL adds as
default line-height? If so, is there a way to strip the extra space around
the glyph?

Two steps: (1) - only turn on the border for the character (by using an inline), not for the block (2) - optionally use line-height="1" to remove any leading on the line, though the leading may be useful for separation since the inline has prevented the leading from having the background colour. I've added this to the example below as well.

I hope this helps.

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

  <table border="solid" border-collapse="collapse">
    <table-column column-width="5cm"/>
    <table-column column-width="5cm"/>
    <table-column column-width="1cm"/>
    <table-column column-width="1cm"/>
    <table-column column-width="1cm"/>
    <table-body>
      <table-cell border="solid">
        <block>
          This is a cell with a long sentence in it.
        </block>
      </table-cell>
      <table-cell display-align="after" border="solid">
        <block>
          This is short.
        </block>
      </table-cell>
      <table-cell border="solid">
        <block><inline background="cyan">X</inline></block>
      </table-cell>
      <table-cell border="solid">
        <block line-height="1"><inline background="cyan">X</inline></block>
      </table-cell>
      <table-cell border="solid">
        <block background="cyan">X</block>
      </table-cell>
    </table-body>
  </table>


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FO questions about blocks in table-cells Gustaf Liljegren - Wed, 12 Jun 2002 06:15:08 -0400 (EDT) G. Ken Holman - Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:25:26 -0400 (EDT) <= <Possible follow-ups> DPawson - Wed, 12 Jun 2002 06:54:53 -0400 (EDT) Gustaf Liljegren - Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:40:04 -0400 (EDT) DPawson - Thu, 13 Jun 2002 04:13:43 -0400 (EDT) DPawson - Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:53:39 -0400 (EDT)

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