Re: Dynamic column widths on table cells

On Mon, October 21, 2013 8:03 pm, KAATMAN Matthew wrote:
> Is it possible to have columns adjust their width based on the length of
> the content?

If your FO processor supports automatic table layout (and you haven't
forced fixed table layout [1]), then it should just work.

> I've got a situation where the right header is quite a bit longer than the
> left. I'd like it to use up the available space instead of wrapping when
> possible. (This example is set to 50/50 column width.)
> http://i.imgur.com/bgCMJYB.png
>
> If there's no way to automatically do it, can I manually do it based on
> content length?

Making decisions based on formatted sizes is the what we're trying to
solve at http://www.w3.org/community/ppl/wiki/FOPRunXSLTExt

> If column one was 20 chars and column 2 was 40, set them to
> proportional-column-width(1) and proportional-column-width(2) for example.

For that, you do need fixed table layout [2].

Using the lengths of the two strings should work most of the time.  Of
course 20 'W' is more than likely wider than 40 'i', but I doubt you'd use
either of those as your header text.

Another option is to discard the table and use a fo:leader between the two
strings to keep them maximally apart.

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_table
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e5961