At 2005-12-27 12:05 +0100, Florent Georges wrote:
Kaila Kaarle wrote:
> I believe you must/can have a fo:block element as the child of
> fo:flow element and then the fo:
> Set this with text-align="center" attribute for the fo:block.
This align the text within the table, not the table on the page (more
formally on the fo:flow), doesn't it?
Yes, you are right.
The way to centre a table is to use table-and-caption and use the
"centre contents in inline-progression direction" directive which
happens to be named "text-align=" (don't be distracted by the name of
the property, that name applies even when aligning graphic content
inside of a content window).
There is an explicit paragraph in 6.7.2 that states the presence of
this inheritable attribute are "placed relative to the
context-rectangle...as specified by the text-align trait". That
gives credence to the interpretation of "text-align" to be "centre
contents in the inline-progression direction".
So, in the absence of table-and-caption, the table is not centred,
but when present, the table-and-caption centres the table. I believe
the XSL-FO 1.0 specification is quite explicit on this.
The instance below works just as expected in Antenna House and Ibex,
though I do not get the expected results from XEP. The first test
doesn't use table-and-caption, while the other two do, the first with
an explicit specification of text-align= and the second with an
inherited specification of text-align=. Thus, the second and third
tables should be centred.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!--georges.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">
<layout-master-set>
<simple-page-master master-name="frame"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body"/>
</simple-page-master>
</layout-master-set>
<page-sequence master-reference="frame">
<flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<block text-align="center">
<block>Test 1</block>
<table width="5cm" border="solid 1pt">
<table-body>
<table-cell>
<block>Hello</block>
</table-cell>
</table-body>
</table>
</block>
<block>Test 2</block>
<table-and-caption text-align="center">
<table width="5cm" border="solid 1pt" text-align="start">
<table-body>
<table-cell>
<block>Hello</block>
</table-cell>
</table-body>
</table>
</table-and-caption>
<block text-align="center">
<block>Test 3</block>
<table-and-caption>
<table width="5cm" border="solid 1pt" text-align="start">
<table-body>
<table-cell>
<block>Hello</block>
</table-cell>
</table-body>
</table>
</table-and-caption>
</block>
</flow>
</page-sequence>
</root>
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