Re: [xep-support] centered tables

From: Werner Donné <werner.donne@re.be>
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 04:02:57 PDT

Hi Christian,

XEP is not misbehaving. The text-align property applies to
inline content. As far as I know there is no equivalent for
blocks in XSL-FO.

Regards,

Werner.

Ettinger, Christian wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> Thank you for this tip. If I don't find another solution I will have to use this workaround.
>
> But isn't there a better way to align a table? Maybe XEP is misbehaving on this issue? I'm sure the FO authors thought about this thing. Does anybody out there have a better solution than to use a table to align a table?
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com]
> To: xep-support@renderx.com
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] centered tables
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> This is what I generate for it:
>
> <fo:table table-layout="fixed">
> <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
> <fo:table-column/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
> <fo:table-body>
> <fo:table-row>
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block/>
> </fo:table-cell>
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block>
> <fo:table width="100%">
> <fo:table-body>
> <fo:table-row>
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block>Cell</fo:block>
> </fo:table-cell>
> </fo:table-row>
> </fo:table-body>
> </fo:table>
> </fo:block>
> </fo:table-cell>
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block/>
> </fo:table-cell>
> </fo:table-row>
> </fo:table-body>
> </fo:table>
>
> Regards,
>
> Werner.
>
> Ettinger, Christian wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to generate tables with XEP that do not span the whole page and get center-aligned.
>> With an fo:external-graphic I can set text-align="center" on the surrounding fo:block. I assumed the same would work for tables, but it did not:
>>
>> <fo:block text-align="center">
>> <fo:table width="auto">
>> <fo:table-column column-number="1" column-width="2cm"/>
>> <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="4cm"/>
>> <fo:table-body>
>> ...
>> </fo:table-body>
>> </fo:table>
>> </fo:block>
>>
>> I tried several ways and searched a lot of websites, but I could not get it work.
>> Is this possible in general?
>> Can anybody tell me how this can be achieved?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Christian
>>
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>> Erlangen, Germany
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