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Re: [xsl] XSL-FO: Background text spanned on several table cells

2009-02-19 11:05:43

G. Ken Holman wrote:
At 2009-02-19 14:26 +0000, Florent Georges wrote:

  Let's say I have a table with 5 columns, and a variable
count of rows.  For some rows, I would like to put a text in
the background, that is spanned over the first 3 columns.
For instance with the following table:

The FO file below gives you the effect you want in both
Antenna House and RenderX ... I'm confident you can generalize
this algorithmically into what you want.  One key, however, is
your expectation of the cell heights ...  I'm not sure you can
achieve what you want with unspecified block-container maximum
heights.  You'll have to have rigid cell boundaries, I think,
to get the desired effect.

Below I'm creating a spanned set of rows and columns for the
area in draft, and in that single cell I'm laying down the
"DRAFT" with a z-index="1" and then redrawing the desired
table cells in a new table on top of "DRAFT" by using a
z-index="2".

  Thanks Ken, that works great for the problem I described.  The
real problem, though, is a bit more complex.  The first three
cells (those to put the text on the background) are spanned over
several rows.  And the table cells have borders.  I've adapted
your example to reflect this situation:

    http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/background-text-ken.fo
    http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/background-text-ken.pdf

  You can see in the PDF that the height of the cells is not
spanned anymore over the lines.  Ideally, what I would like is
something like this (the vertical position of the background
text does not really matter):

    http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/background-text.jpg

  But I don't know how to tell the processor to use all the
available vertical space for the inner table.

  Regards,

-- 
Florent Georges
http://www.fgeorges.org/



























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