At 2003-01-13 12:52 +0200, Matts Isuls wrote:
Just started with fo.
Welcome!
I have this cell in a table. ... The thing is that is always have to use
two lines. How do i do this?
This was important for me when developing stylesheets for use with the
Universal Business Language (UBL) documents. Each field on the form has a
prescribed location and size, yet the information in each field varies, so
I couldn't rely on the number of lines of text.
I ended up using a block container within the table-cell. This required me
to set the block container to a multiple of the number of lines, but
remember that the default line-height is implementation dependent, so I had
to then explicitly set the line-height so that my multiplier worked.
In the example below I have font-size="10pt" line-height="1.1" which means
that two lines will take up 22pt, so each cell has <block-container
height="22pt"> to force a two-line height.
I hope this helps.
......................... Ken
<flow flow-name="frame-body" font-family="Times" font-size="10pt"
line-height="1.1">
<block>This is a test</block>
<table>
<table-column column-width="5cm"/>
<table-column column-width="5cm"/>
<table-column column-width="5cm"/>
<table-body>
<table-row>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
</table-row>
<table-row>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
</table-row>
<table-row>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>Short line</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
</table-row>
<table-row>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
<table-cell>
<block-container height="22pt">
<block>A longer line with enough information for two rows.</block>
</block-container>
</table-cell>
</table-row>
</table-body>
</table>
</flow>
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