Re: [xsl] keeping text together in PDF

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

At 2006-01-16 11:36 -0500, Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there is no "separation" being produced.  The FO
> document does not have any whitespace between the period and the 125".  I
> am starting to think it is a bug with AntennaHouse, as this doesn't happen
> with any of the other measurements in the document.

And, it doesn't happen with other formatters, either.  Below is a 
test flow that illustrates how Antenna House treats "." as a 
word-space character, while XEP and Ibex keep the "." with the 
following digits.

Interestingly, I tried the second test below in all three engines 
where I'm declaring that the "W" is a word-space character, and only 
Ibex seems to respect this.  Drop this flow into any page sequence 
you have in your FO file and it should illustrate the test.

XSL-FO 1.0 sections 4.7.2, 6.6.3 and 7.16.7/8 discuss the 
treat-as-word-space trait on a character triggering the end of the 
line.  But nowhere do I see that the default trait for this is "true" 
for the decimal point character, so I'm quite confident this is an AX bug.

> I there a way to fix this via XSL, or should I just send a bug report to
> AntennaHouse?

Send a report.  By the look of your code you are well-versed in 
recursive templates (though I would have parameterized the 
substitutions a bit) and you probably could work your way around it, 
but then you'd be accommodating the tool rather than getting the tool fixed.

In my experience, vendors are very interested to receive bug reports.

I hope this helps.

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

<flow xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; flow-name="frame-body"
      font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">

  <block>This is a test of line breaks:</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>

  <block>This is a test of treat-as-word-space:</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>
  <block>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<character character="W" 
treat-as-word-space="true"/>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .125</block>

</flow>

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