[xep-support] "Ragged" left alignment when preserving whitespace

From: Chris Gates (cgates@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 09:27:55 PDT

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    Hi.
    I'm using XEP 3.5.4 on WinXP running Pentium 4 / 1.8Ghz / 640Gb RAM with
    Java 1.4.2.

    I'm trying to include a block of text inside a table cell. The text
    contains some whitespace and linefeeds which should be preserved, but
    longer lines should be wrapped to fit inside the cell. The problem is
    that often when XEP breaks a longer line the next line appears to begin
    with a space which makes the left margin appear ragged.

    Here is the effect; notice the indent preceding "explicitly":
    This explanation text tests that line breaks will occur both where they are
     explicitly placed and also when a given line of text exceeds available
    width.

    Other notes:
    1) I've currently set the block attributes to
    white-space-collapse="false" linefeed-treatment="preserve". (Those are
    required to correctly display the source document.)
    2) I've tried all combinations of the white-space-tratement attribute
    without success.
    3) It appears to occur only when the soft break occurs within the last 3
    characters of the line.
    4) Curiously, when I select the text in Acrobat Reader, there is no
    leading space; instead the text simply appears to be indented by a
    single character. (!?)
    5) Below is a test case which replicates the problem. I've replicated
    the problem in XEP 2.77 and XEP 3.5.4. Interestingly, I cannot recreate
    the problem using Apache FOP 0.20.5.

    Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?
    Chris Gates
    cg

    <fo:table table-layout="fixed" font-family="Courier" font-size="10pt">
       <fo:table-column column-width="4in"/>
       <fo:table-body>
          <fo:table-row>
             <fo:table-cell>
    <fo:block white-space-collapse="false" linefeed-treatment="preserve">This explanation text tests that line breaks will occur both where they are explicitly placed and also when a given line of text exceeds available width.
    </fo:block>
             </fo:table-cell>
          </fo:table-row>
       </fo:table-body>
       
    </fo:table>

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