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June 22, 2010
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XSL FO: Can you center sometimes?

  • June 22, 2010
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This seems like such a stupid question but I've looked and looked and am getting nowhere...and I'm not that good with XSL FO.

Is there a way to test if the text is wider than the block and if so, change the inherited text-align=left to text-align=center if it is just one short sentence?

<xsl:template match="trim.para">
<fo:block font-family="sanserif" space-before.conditionality="discard" space-before.maximum="8pt" space-before.minimum="6pt" space-before.optimum="7pt" span="all">
<xsl:if test="@bullet" ==" yes&quot;=">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="no">•</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/">
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>

Thanks,

John T. Jarrett
BAE Systems | Arbortext PE version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.7

    2 replies

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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    June 22, 2010
    Hi John-



    I don't know of a way to do exactly what you want, because the actual
    rendered font metrics aren't available for testing in the stylesheet.
    They don't get computed until things are rendered, which happens after
    XSLT transformation is done.



    But, you might be able to approximate what you want by examining the
    string length. It would look something like this:



    <xsl:template match="trim.para">

    <fo:block font-family="sanserif" space-before.conditionality="discard"&lt;br"/>space-before.maximum="8pt" space-before.minimum="6pt"
    space-before.optimum="7pt" span="all">



    <xsl:if test="string-length(.)"> 80">

    <xsl:attribute name="text-align">center</xsl:attribute>

    </xsl:if>

    <xsl:if test="@bullet" ==" yes&quot;=">

    <xsl:text<br/>disable-output-escaping="no">•</xsl:text>

    </xsl:if>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/">

    </fo:block>

    </xsl:template>



    HTH.



    --C


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    bibach1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 22, 2010
    John,

    I'm not completely clear on the effect you're after, but perhaps an
    appropriate combination of text-align and text-align-last might work?

    -Brandon Smiley Happy


    On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, John Jarrett
    <-> wrote:
    > This seems like such a stupid question but I've looked and looked and am
    > getting nowhere...and I'm not that good with XSL FO.
    >
    > Is there a way to test if the text is wider than the block and if so, change
    > the inherited text-align=left to text-align=center if it is just one short
    > sentence?
    >
    > <xsl:template match="trim.para">
    > <fo:block font-family="sanserif" space-before.conditionality="discard"&lt;br"/>> space-before.maximum="8pt" space-before.minimum="6pt"
    > space-before.optimum="7pt" span="all">
    > <xsl:if test="@bullet" ==" yes&quot;=">
    > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="no">•</xsl:text>
    > </xsl:if>
    > <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/">
    > </fo:block>
    > </xsl:template>
    >
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > John T. Jarrett
    > BAE Systems | Arbortext PE version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.7
    >
    > -----End Original Message-----
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