Whew! glad to hear this wasn't an RTFM ;-) Seems like this should have just
been another attribute for the page-layout information.
I also knew there was a reason why I stayed with one column documents.
Ken are you doing a full FO class at XML 2005? I think I took an XSLT class
from you at one of these past events.
..dan
At 07:39 PM 9/15/2005, G. Ken Holman wrote:
At 2005-09-15 17:18 -0700, Dan Vint wrote:
I did a search on balanced and unbalanced columns in the spec and didn't
find anything. Also looked into widows and orphans with no help.
Is there a way in XSL to request a multi column layout to balance the
length of columns when it doesn't fill a page?
:{)} This is part of the first exercise in my XSL-FO training, Dan ...
too bad you haven't yet had the chance to take it.
Add a zero-sized spanned block at the end of your flow for the page
sequence ... this will push up the columns into their span-reference-area
in order to open the new span-reference-area for the empty block, thus
accomplishing your required balancing. The empty block will not render
and all you have is the balanced columns.
Note, though, the balancing isn't necessarily precise as the formatter
still has to accommodate widows and orphans in the "pushed-up" column
content. In my exercise's data it happens that the left column is three
lines longer than the right in order to satisfy the widow/orphan
counts. But, the lines are all at the top of the two-column page, not
just down the left.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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