block-progression-dimension clarification (sorry for long post)

Hi all, and sorry for this probably trivial question:

what I need:
1. a structure (that for semplicity we can call "table") based on 3 rows and
2 columns (i.e. 2 cells per row)
2. this structure must be fixed in height (say 20cm)
3. the rows must have a preferable height of 30%, 40%, 30% as optimum but
must be able to change the height accordingly with the cell content

what I try:
1. it seems that a real fo:table with a good usage of
block-progression-dimension (.minimum, .optimum, .maximum) should fit very
well for such problem. Thus i write some code (a table with just one cell
per row, to keep the things simple):

Unfortunately, with FOP 0.95 this seems not work (btw, I cannot use
percentage - probably due to FOP problem):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root text-align="center" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
    <fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4_1" margin="1cm"
page-width="21cm"
            page-height="29.7cm">
            <fo:region-body/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
    </fo:layout-master-set>
    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4_1">
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
            <fo:block-container block-progression-dimension="20cm" >
                <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"
block-progression-dimension="20cm" >
                    <fo:table-body>
                        <fo:table-row >
                            <fo:table-cell
block-progression-dimension.optimum="6cm"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="4cm"
block-progression-dimension.maximum="8cm"   border="solid">
                                <fo:block>place long text here</fo:block>
                            </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                        <fo:table-row >
                            <fo:table-cell
block-progression-dimension.optimum="8cm"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="6cm"
block-progression-dimension.maximum="10cm"   border="solid">
                                <fo:block>place long text here</fo:block>
                            </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                        <fo:table-row >
                            <fo:table-cell
block-progression-dimension.optimum="6cm"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="4cm"
block-progression-dimension.maximum="8cm"   border="solid">
                                <fo:block>place long text here</fo:block>
                            </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                    </fo:table-body>
                </fo:table>
            </fo:block-container>
        </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Placing a long text in a cell, the cell height grows up to include all the
text, regardless the block-progression-dimension. I placed a block container
around the table with no success.

I try to place a block-container inside the table-cell defining its own
block-progression-dimension.* but no way (in this case, the cell and
block-container height result in optimum (6cm) and the inner block with text
overflow, even if the text length fill in the
block-progression-dimension.maximum size).

Assuming that probably I have some problem with tables :-) I try a "only
block containers solution":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

    <fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:simple-page-master master-name="PM">
            <fo:region-body margin-top="20mm" margin-left="20mm"
margin-right="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"/>
            <fo:region-before extent="20mm" />
            <fo:region-after extent="20mm" />
        </fo:simple-page-master>
    </fo:layout-master-set>

    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="PM">
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
            <!-- block container for the whole "table" -->
            <fo:block-container >
                <!-- first "table row" -->
                <fo:block-container
                    block-progression-dimension.minimum="2cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.optimum="6cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.maximum="9cm"
                    border="solid 1pt" background-color="yellow" >

                    <fo:block block-progression-dimension="100%">
                        <fo:inline>
                            long text here
                        </fo:inline>
                    </fo:block>

                </fo:block-container>

                <!-- second row -->
                <fo:block-container
                    block-progression-dimension.minimum="2cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.optimum="8cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.maximum="10cm"
                    border="solid 1pt" >

                    <fo:block block-progression-dimension="100%" >
                        <fo:inline >
                        long text here
                        </fo:inline>
                    </fo:block>

                </fo:block-container>

                <!-- last row -->
                <fo:block-container  relative-position="relative"
                    block-progression-dimension.minimum="2cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.optimum="6cm"
                    block-progression-dimension.maximum="9cm"
                    border="solid 1pt" background-color="yellow" >

                    <fo:block block-progression-dimension="100%">
                        <fo:inline>
                            long text here
                        </fo:inline>
                    </fo:block>

                </fo:block-container>

            </fo:block-container>

        </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>

</fo:root>

No way again. So I must assume that probably I didn't understood how
block-progression-dimension.* works :-(

Questions:

1. Any hint?
2. What I'm missing?
3. There is another way?
4. There is a way to extimate the height required, assuming that I know the
text lenght and font parameters, in order to programmaticaly set the row
height?

TIA

Giuseppe



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Received on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 07:10:45 UTC