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Wordman
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Reputation: 21

XSL-FO different column-gap on same page

I'm flowing text across four columns per page, using XSL-FO, with a typical definition like:

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="sample" page-height="8.5in" page-width="11.0in" margin="8mm">
 <fo:region-body column-count="4" column-gap="4mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>

Is it possible to set the column-gap between the second and third column (for example) to be a different size than the column-gaps between the other columns?

If there is no official way of doing this, is there a way to "fake it"?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 287

Answers (1)

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

It's not part of the spec for column-gap (https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#column-gap), and I don't know of any XSL formatter that implements it.

One way to fake it would be to use multiple fo:region-body and a flow map that directs the content to each region in turn. See https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fafm. For your different column gap between the second and third columns, you would need two two-column fo:region-body. Not every XSL formatter implements flow maps, however, plus you couldn't have content with span="all" that would span across all the columns: at best, it would span across all of the columns in one of the fo:region-body.

Upvotes: 1

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