Re: [xsl] fun with fo tab formatting

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

At 2003-12-10 17:55 -0600, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> 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.

I agree that would be best.

> 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).

Stacking fixed-width inline-containers along the line would approximate 
this effect ... one had to do this in DSSSL to do hanging indents.  Not all 
tools yet support inline-containers.

.................... Ken

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