Re: [xsl] xsl list item writes over the label?

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

josh higgins wrote:
> I am trying to use a list and the list-item is writing
> over the list-label.  Any ideas?

(I assume that in your real data the elements are not actually empty but 
nest.)

You have to set the end-indent of the list item label and the 
start-indent of the list item block so that they don't overlap. It took 
me forever to finally figure out this aspect of FO (thanks to Ken's FO 
book).

The trick is that you set the provisional label length and label-to-body 
gap on the list block and then use the "label-end()" and "body-start()" 
functions to calculate the necessary indents:

 <fo:list-block provisional-label-separation="4mm"
     provisional-distance-between-starts="20mm">
   <fo:list-item>
    <fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
      ...
    </fo:list-item-label>
    <fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
       ...
    </fo:list-item-body>
  </fo:list-block>


This creates a 20mm label "column" and reserves 4mm gutter out of that 20mm.

Cheers,

Eliot

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