Re: fo, line wrap on index format.

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Subject: Re: fo, line wrap on index format.
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:53:18 -0400

At 2004-04-23 14:13 +0100, David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Desired layout is

[date][free text field, long or short][leader][amount]
I.e. typical index formatting.

E.g.

12 Nov short free text ................... 12.50
13 Nov long free text which causes a wrap
       to here ........................... 13.50
14 Nov the nasty one with just enough txt.
                                           14.50

I.e. the text is just enough to cause the wrap,
    yet the leader is on the first line.

Problem,

How to manage the line wrap.
...
The empty cell is to keep clear separation between the free text field and
the amount.

I don't recommend that table-oriented approach at all, I recommend using outdents on both the first and last line, using indents for the wrap edge positions, thus ensuring your desired gaps in a single formatting object:

For example, the simplest would be:

  <block start-indent="4cm" text-indent="-4cm"
         end-indent="4cm" last-line-end-indent="-4cm">

I think you have my book, page 150 of the paper Ninth Edition or page 158 of the electronic Eleventh edition illustrates this (the bottom half of figure 5-11) ... I believe this is a far better approach to wrapping table of contents entries (as well as being far more succinct).

I hope this helps.

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

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fo, line wrap on index format. David . Pawson - Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:14:31 -0400 (EDT) <Possible follow-ups> G. Ken Holman - Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:53:45 -0400 (EDT) <= David . Pawson - Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:11:44 -0400 (EDT) David . Pawson - Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:15:36 -0400 (EDT) G. Ken Holman - Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:25:10 -0400 (EDT)

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