Re: nbsp?

At 2002-01-28 17:50 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
>I have a need to keep together two elements, one a literal,
>one a piece of source document content, on a single line.

And the following doesn't work?

    <inline keep-together="always">
      <xsl:text>literal text here</xsl:text>
      <xsl:text>(use value-of here)</xsl:text>
    </inline>

>What are the likely candidates please? Or is it simply a formatter 
>available font question?

If I've understood your question, it isn't a font issue at all.

>Tried thinspace, mspace nspace etc.

This leads me on to a following post ...

>Other suggestions please?

Just use the keep-together property at the line level (it isn't only 
designed to be used at the block level).

I hope the snippet below helps ... it works just fine in Antenna House.

................. Ken

T:\ftemp>type dave.fo
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--dave.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
       font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">

<layout-master-set>
   <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
     page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
     margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
     margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
     <region-body region-name="frame-body"
       margin-top="13mm" margin-bottom="13mm"/>
   </simple-page-master>
   <page-sequence-master master-name="frame-pages">
     <single-page-master-reference master-reference="frame"/>
   </page-sequence-master>
</layout-master-set>

<page-sequence master-reference="frame-pages">
   <flow flow-name="frame-body">

   <block>This is a test without keep-together
   <inline>
     (here is text without keep-together on a line)
   </inline>
   </block>

   <block>This is a test with keep-together
   <inline keep-together="always">
     (here is text with keep-together on a line)
   </inline>
   </block>

   </flow>
</page-sequence>

</root>

T:\ftemp>


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