Re: [xsl] Newspaper Style Columns

[Mulberry Technologies List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm going from XML to PDF using an XSL.  I need two columns with a small
> space in the middle.  Unfortunately I cannot use the column-count and
> column-gap attribute of the fo:region-body element.

Why not? Did you try it and get a result you didn't like? Is there an 
external constraint on your techniques? Are you using a tool that 
doesn't know how to count?

> I was originally
> thinking of using tables, however that wont work.

Again, why not? If you don't tell the list more about your 
requirements, what you have tried, and why you don't like the results 
you have gotten you will not get much help.

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-- Tommie
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