[xep-support] "Ragged" left alignment when preserving whitespace

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Chris,

> I'm trying to include a block of text inside a table cell.  
> The text contains some whitespace and linefeeds which 
> should be preserved, but longer lines should be wrapped 
> to fit inside the cell.  The problem is that often when XEP 
> breaks a longer line the next line appears to begin with 
> a space which makes the left margin appear ragged. 

This is a limitation of XEP. We don't support 
white-space-treatment="ignore-if-surrounding-linefeed", 
needed to prevent the observed effect. Its support is planned
in subsequent versions, but I cannot give you any estimate 
about schedules.

> Interestingly, I cannot recreate the problem using Apache FOP 0.20.5.

Perhaps they implement the correct value of white-space-treatment.

> Is this a known issue?  

Yes.

> Is there a workaround?

Not yet, sorry. The only thing that comes to mind is to count characters 
and insert explicit line breaks on the XSLT level; but it's hard to implement
and has a very limited applicability; I mention it but dare not recommend it.

Best regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX

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