Re: [xsl] How would I lay the following out in XSL-FO?

Subject: Re: [xsl] How would I lay the following out in XSL-FO?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 14:21:08 -0500
At 2002-11-07 18:42 +0000, Max Leonard wrote:
How would I lay the following out in XSL-FO?

-------------------page width--------------------
-----col 1-----  -----col 2-----  -----col 3-----
(I've got page-masters ok this far)

--------picture-------  col2txt-  ----col3txt----
--------picture-------  col2txt-  ----col3txt----
--------picture-------  col2txt-  ----col3txt----
--------picture-------  col2txt-  ----col3txt----
----col1txt----  ----col2txt----  ----col3txt----
----col1txt----  ----col2txt----  ----col3txt----
----col1txt----  ----col2txt----  ----col3txt----
----col1txt----  ----col2txt----  ----col3txt----
----col1txt----  ----col2txt----  ----col3txt----


Basically, I would like to make the picture repel text.

I don't think this can be done in XSL-FO 1.0 because the side floats are rendered in the normal-flow-reference-areas as divided up by the column specifications of the body region in the page's span-reference-areas. Your picture will just overwrite the text in the second column.


Would a float do that, if the picture was wider
than one column, intruding halfway into column 2?

No.


What
is the best way of 'intruding' an item into text, such
that it repels the text like this?

Side floats will do it within a given column, but will not have influence beyond the column.


I hope this helps understand the situation.

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


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