Re: how to make content flow from left to right on page

We use AntennaHouse at work.
We do this with AntennaHouse extension.

http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/axf5-extension.htm#axf.column-count

It does what you want.

In xsl-fo 1.1 you can use column-count in region-body.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#column-count
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/N8542.html

Alexandre Moraes



On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:32 -0400, t14 wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to create a pdf document (using xsl-fo) where the content
> starts
> > on the left of a page and continues on the right, similar to a news paper
> or
> > magazine.
>
> Sounds like you need a page master with a body region divided into
> columns, using column-count.
>
> In XSL-FO 1.0 and 1.1, there are some limitations -- e.g., the columns
> must all be the same width -- that we hope to improve for XSL 2.0 in
> the future.
>
> Liam
>
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