RE: [xsl] Filling a table cell with a dotted line of varying length

["Matthew L. Avizinis" <mla@xxxxxxxxx>]

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-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joerg
> Heinicke
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 8:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [xsl] 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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