Re: Several sections of 2-column text per page possible?

It did have the effect that I wanted. (Using FOP.20.5)


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:27:26 GMT, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>   Beautiful.  "span" doesn't take an integer.  Does that mean that there
>   is no way to have different text blocks to have different numbers of
>   columns?
> 
> my reading of the spec is that you just have all or none so you can't
> have a three column doc and just span two columns.
> 
> What isn't clear to me from the spec is whether what I posted is
> _forced_ (or even allowed) to produce the effect you want.
> 
> maybe someone "on the inside" could comment on whether given
> 
> > <fo:block span="all">block 1</fo:block>
> > <fo:block span="none">[text]</fo:block>
> > <fo:block span="all">block 2</fo:block>
> > <fo:block span="none">[text]</fo:block>
> > <fo:block span="all">block 3</fo:block>
> > <fo:block span="none">[text]</fo:block>
> >
> 
> the <fo:block span="none">[text]</fo:block> bits should (or can) be
> wrapped to two columns, or whether the system is allowed (or must) put
> it all in the first column (leaving the second column empty).
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
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