Re: fun with fo tab formatting

Kyle Partridge wrote:

I thought I'd use an empty fo:block to do it...something like:
<fo:block indent-before="0.2in"/>One<fo:block
indent-before="1in"/>Blue<fo:block indent-before="1in"/>Fish
All I want to know is, am I totally barking up the wrong tree?  And if
so, could you recommend an alternative strategy?  I'm willing to do my
own leg-work.

..
The most reliable approach will be to use tables to emulate the tabbing.

The problem is handling the second and subsequent tabs--there's no inline object that has the semantic of "position at the next absolute offset from the start edge of the current line area" (at least as far as I know).

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