[Fwd: 7.22.2 overflow: :request to support of text-overflow]

I thought there was a Bugzilla entry for this but I seem to be wrong about
that.

If we postulate XSL-FO going forward with a stronger correspondence to
CSS, how would you see XSL-FO handling requests such as this where:

a) CSS has a property definition

b) Some or all of the CSS definition may be "at risk", e.g. 'The <string>
value, and the 2-value syntax "{1,2}" and functionality are all at risk.'

c) There exists at least one XSL-FO implementation [1] with similar but
different syntax/semantics

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/extension.htm#axf.overflow-replace

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Subject: 7.22.2 overflow: :request to support of text-overflow
From:    "Adrian Stadelmann" <Adrian.Stadelmann@loewenfels.ch>
Date:    Thu, March 22, 2012 4:31 pm
To:      "xsl-editors@w3.org" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
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Hi,
It whould be very helpful to use a text-overflow as in
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#text-overflow0

why:
the overflow="hidden" is not very useful for a print media in case of
text, because it may cut a letter.

Doing this outside of the FO namespace is also a bad solution because it
requires font size/style calculation.

see also my
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807926/add-suspensive-dots-at-end-of-a-text-in-case-of-overflow-hidden
question.

other ideas?

Adrian