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At 2009-07-05 13:58 +0200, Jan Hoeft wrote:
Do you mean to leave a blank between the previous block and this block?
<fo:block space-before="1em">
Do you mean to leave a blank between this block and the next block?
<fo:block space-after="1em">
In both cases, when that space is at the very beginning or very end of a reference area (say a column), the space is discarded. This is very helpful when displaying continuous blocks across multiple columns/pages.
If, however, you are asking about creating an empty line regardless of the content of the element, that would be:
<fo:block><fo:leader/></fo:block>
This is more elegant than using a non-breaking space or other special graphic character. And more elegant than using regular spaces in combination with properties that prevent their collapse.
But I am unclear about your question in that you are asking about empty lines yet your template is quite obviously adding the content of your paragraph to the result tree.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
Re: [xsl] Elegant way to create an empty line
Subject: Re: [xsl] Elegant way to create an empty line From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:06:57 -0400 |
At 2009-07-05 13:58 +0200, Jan Hoeft wrote:
is there an elegant way to create empty lines using block elements?
My template is quite simple:
<xsl:template match="p"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates/> </fo:block> </xsl:template>
How do I tell FO to create a new line for each <p/>?
Do you mean to leave a blank between the previous block and this block?
<fo:block space-before="1em">
Do you mean to leave a blank between this block and the next block?
<fo:block space-after="1em">
In both cases, when that space is at the very beginning or very end of a reference area (say a column), the space is discarded. This is very helpful when displaying continuous blocks across multiple columns/pages.
If, however, you are asking about creating an empty line regardless of the content of the element, that would be:
<fo:block><fo:leader/></fo:block>
This is more elegant than using a non-breaking space or other special graphic character. And more elegant than using regular spaces in combination with properties that prevent their collapse.
But I am unclear about your question in that you are asking about empty lines yet your template is quite obviously adding the content of your paragraph to the result tree.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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