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RE: Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying

Subject: RE: Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying length
From: "Matthew L. Avizinis" <mla@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:43:17 -0500
dotted line table
Yep, simple enough and you're right on the money.  However, all the lines
doesn't want to align at line end nice and evenly.  It's not off by a whole
lot, but just doesn't look quite pretty enough.
thank you,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joerg
> Heinicke
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 8:53 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying
> length
>
>
> Hello Matthew,
>
> in FO you can find <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots">
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_leader). I know this from using
> DocBook-XSLs (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935)
> from Norman Walsh. It's used there for the TOC (autotoc.xsl). I don't know
> if this is helpful in your case too.
>
> Joerg
>
> > Hello all,
> > First off, I'd like to say that this list is so good that in
> most cases if
> I
> > want to figure out how to do something I only have to search the e-mail
> > folder I save the messages in and, wham!, I have a solution (or
> a least a
> > partial one) and I usually just collect the messages and lurk
> (sounds kind
> > of selfish when I write it out like this, however time accountability at
> > work prevents me from participating here as often as I'd like
> or at all).
> > Those of you who answer most of the questions exhibit true altruism (at
> > least, it seems that way from my perspective).  Just think, if
> governments
> > could help each other the same way how much nicer a planet this
> would be.
> >
> > Anyhow, my own question:
> > 1) A table with two cells on each row
> > 2) The left cell contains text aligned to start with varying number of
> > characters, hence leaving a variable empty space to the right
> of the text.
> > 3) How can I fill the space with .... (dotted line) while at
> the same time
> > not exceeding the cell width/boundary?  This is important since
> it will be
> > rendered to pdf with FOP (which usually complains if cell boundaries are
> > exceeded).
> >
> > I vaguely recall this being discussed at some time in the past,
> maybe here
> > or in the FOP list, but I have no idea what I'd be searching the archive
> for
> > in this case, so I figured I ask again and maybe someone could give some
> > example code or point to the thread if there was one.
> >
> > heap big thanks in advance,
> >
> >    Matthew L. Avizinis <mailto:mla@xxxxxxxxx>
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>
>
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