Thanks, Abel, for your response. Unfortunately, text-align="." is not
supported by XEP - or apparently FOP.
Another caveat is that each row in the column may have a different
font-size or font-style that is not determined until run-time. I use
the pre-process to determine the actual value and data format
(precision, type, whether to display the currency or percent symbol,
etc) that goes into the cell, and the final step to style or "decorate"
the value.
So I do need to use the fo:leader solution, I just can't get the entire
set to right-align.
P.S. "<<$max-precision=5>> * inherited-property-value(font-size)" is for
illustration purposes - the actual value in the code is "5 *
inherited-property-value(font-size)".
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Angela
-----Original Message-----
From: Abel Braaksma [mailto:abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:43 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Decimal alignment using fo:leader
I'm not sure about xsl-fo possibilities here, but because you are using
numbers, you don't need to worry about the widths, as numbers always (?)
have the same width for alignment purposes. That said, you could use
your xslt preprocess phase to align them properly using position, spaces
or similar based on the widest result string (highest precision value).
However, I realize that it is not a pretty solution. But what you should
be able to do, is something along the lines of:
<fo:table>
<fo:table-column text-align="." column-width="auto" />
....
<fo:table-body>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>52.50000</fo:table-cell>
</
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>10.38</fo:table-cell>
</
</
</
but note that if you use Apache FOP, the text-align="$some-sting" is not
supported.
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
PS: your code is not correct (it is not well-formed XML), it is not
clear to me what it is supposed to do, but it can't run the way you
posted it.
Angela Williams wrote:
I'm sure someone smarter than I am has already solved this....
I'm trying to align data in an fo:table on the decimal point, with the
value having the greatest precision right-aligned. All of the
examples I have found show fixed width, only.
How do you do this when you don't know the size of the font, or the
width of the column?
I've tried to calculate the leader-length, but I'm not having any luck
getting it to right align. How could I change this to make it work?
This is what I have:
<fo:table-cell column-number="4" border=".1mm solid black"
padding-start="5%" padding-before="2pt" padding-end="5%">
<fo:block text-align="right" font-size="8pt"> 52<fo:leader
leader-pattern="use-content"
leader-length="<<$max-precision=5>>*
inherited-property-value(font-size)"
leader-pattern-width="<<$max-precision=5>> *
inherited-property-value(font-size)">.50000</fo:leader>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell column-number="4" border=".1mm solid black"
padding-start="5%" padding-before="2pt" padding-end="5%">
<fo:block text-align="right" font-size="8pt"> 10<fo:leader
leader-pattern="use-content"
leader-length="<<$max-precision=5>> *
inherited-property-value(font-size)"
leader-pattern-width="<<$max-precision=5>> *
inherited-property-value(font-size)">.38</fo:leader>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
This gives me (assume a border-bottom in the fo:block within the last
row):
+-------------------+
| 52.50000 |
| 10.38 |
| ---------------- |
+-------------------+
But I need:
+-------------------+
| 52.50000 |
| 10.38 |
| ---------------- |
+-------------------+
Thanks in advance!
Angela Williams
Software Developer
The 401k Company, A Charles Schwab Company
98 San Jacinto Blvd. ~ Suite 1100 ~ Austin, TX 78701
Office: 512.344.1547 ~ Fax: 512.397.6656
Angela(_dot_)Williams(_at_)The401kCompany(_dot_)com
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