Re: XSL FO keep-together=int Implementation?

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Subject: Re: XSL FO keep-together=int Implementation?
From: Alex Milowski <alexml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:05:58 -0700

On Jun 12, 2005, at 6:15 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:

I've been anxious to find implementations of relative keep strength in order to improve the presentation of the annexes of my XSL-FO book, but I haven't seen any yet. I would have liked to help Alex by citing an implementation, but I didn't have anything to contribute to his question.

That's a huge bummer... ...and what I saw when I perused the compliance of many of the XSL vendors/implementations.

I believe both interpretations of keep-together="always" are allowed given this sentence in section 4.8:

If not all of a set of keep conditions of equal strength can be satisfied, then some maximal satisfiable subset of conditions of that strength must be satisfied (together with all break conditions and maximal subsets of stronger keep conditions, if any).

So, an implementation can choose to violate the keep-together if it can't possibly satisfy the condition (e.g. the area will fit on no page) as maximal subset of satisfiable could mean the empty set. In that sense, breaking across pages would be an acceptable solution if the content does not fit. It would be better for interoperability that always meant always.

-- Alex Milowski

"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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XSL FO keep-together=int Implementation? Alex Milowski - 11 Jun 2005 21:37:43 -0000 J.Pietschmann - 12 Jun 2005 08:23:33 -0000 G. Ken Holman - 12 Jun 2005 13:16:34 -0000 Alex Milowski - 12 Jun 2005 16:06:17 -0000 <= J.Pietschmann - 12 Jun 2005 17:55:41 -0000 Alex Milowski - 13 Jun 2005 03:12:34 -0000 J.Pietschmann - 13 Jun 2005 20:48:18 -0000

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