Re: [xsl] How to achieve FO Table variable width with nowrap on cells

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-01-25 18:12 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> It seems that I am having success with a table defined like this:

Good ... I had a typo in my response to you and you are correctly 
using table-layout="auto" (the default).

> <table>
>   <table-body border-bottom="solid 1px #000">
>     <table-row>
>         <table-cell><block>Label Cell:</block></table-cell>
>         <table-cell><block padding-left=".05in">Value 
> Cell</block></table-cell>
>     </table-row
>   </table-body>
> </table>
>
> Is it correct to assume that the table width will derive from the
> total width of content (until it reaches parent object boundary
> width)?

No, because with "auto" the formatter has every right to make its own 
decisions about line breaks.

> Or to be safe, should I conform with your option #1?

I've always used the wrappers just to be on the safe side.

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:50 PM, G. Ken Holman
> <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > (1) - use table-layout="fixed" and wrap the content of each cell in a block
> > keeping the line contents together with something like 
> wrap-option="no-wrap"
> > or with a keep-together.within-line= to force the formatter to make its
> > table column decisions without breaking the line content

Sorry, in the above I meant to say table-layout="auto" but was 
apparently thinking about the other values that are not appropriate 
when I actually was doing the typing.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . .  Ken

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