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 I am writing XSL-FO to produce a questionnaire document. For this I will need to create empty text-boxes and tick-boxes. When I've had to create quiz layouts, I've used <block-container> very effectively: if the quiz had a specified distance *including* the question, the question is flowed inside the <block-container>, whereas if the quiz had a specified distance for just the answer, the question is flowed before the <block-container>. Here is the test bed that I used to learn this ... these are the first two questions from our evaluation form for our hands-on XSL training ... the first has the question inside the block container, the second has the question before the block container: <list-item>
<list-item-label text-align="end" end-indent="label-end()">
<block>1)</block>
</list-item-label>
<list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
<block-container block-progression-dimension="2.3cm">
<block start-indent="0pt">
<xsl:text>Did the material cover what you were expecting?</xsl:text>
</block>
</block-container>
</list-item-body>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<list-item-label text-align="end" end-indent="label-end()">
<block>2)</block>
</list-item-label>
<list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
<block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5"
text-align-last="justify">
<xsl:text>Quality of the presentation slides:</xsl:text>
<leader/>
<xsl:text>(poor) 1 - 10 (excellent): </xsl:text>
<leader leader-pattern="rule" leader-length="1cm"
rule-thickness="1pt"/>
</block>
<block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5">
<xsl:text>How might the presentation slides be improved?</xsl:text>
</block>
<block-container block-progression-dimension="2.0cm"
start-indent="0pt"
space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5">
<block/>
</block-container>
</list-item-body>
</list-item>For tick-boxes, I use a bordered <inline-container>, as in the following also from my evaluation sheet, though this appears to only work in Antenna House and not in XEP or in Ibex, and I haven't bothered to figure out who is right and who is wrong ... it might only be an issue of those tools not supporting <inline-container>: <block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5"
text-align-last="justify">
<xsl:text>Would you like to be contacted for information</xsl:text>
<xsl:text> on future courses from either the event</xsl:text>
<xsl:text> organizers or directly from Crane?</xsl:text>
<leader/>
<inline-container width="1em" height="1em"
alignment-adjust="text-after-edge"
border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
<block><leader/></block>
</inline-container>
<xsl:text> No </xsl:text>
<inline-container width="1em" height="1em"
alignment-adjust="text-after-edge"
border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
<block><leader/></block>
</inline-container>
<xsl:text> Yes</xsl:text>
</block>From my understanding of XSL-FO the above should be right. I hope this helps. . . . . . . . . Ken At 2006-03-22 17:23 +0000, Lloyd Thompson wrote: Greetings, -- Upcoming XSLT/XSL-FO hands-on courses: Washington,DC 2006-06-12/16 World-wide on-site corporate, govt. & user group XML/XSL training. G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal 
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