At 2003-12-11 13:48 -0500, you wrote:
I'm laying out something that has columns within columns within columns.
...
Is there any significant advantage in using XSL's columns over its tables
for layout purposes in a print document?
Flow.
You cannot specify in XSL-FO 1.0 that the content flow go through one
table's column followed by another column. You have to package the content
for the columns in advance of the transformation .. and there are no ways
to measure how much of a column might be occupied by your content in order
to know where to break and package it.
But ... in XSL-FO 1.0 you cannot have columns within columns.. the number
of columns is described in the page geometry and must be equally-sized and
evenly-spaced.
I hope this helps.
......................... Ken
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