[xep-support] Intermediate format question

[Geoff Levner]

It would be simpler to put "_elastic_" into an attribute of your  
fo:block, wouldn't it?  Then you would not have to worry about XEP  
processing it.  You might use the "id" attribute, for example.

Geoff

On 3 Oct 2006, at 07:36, Teus Benschop wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've a minor problem here with the XEP intermediate format, and  
> perhaps somebody knows a solution for it.
>
> Our scenario is this.
> We've a text.fo xslfo file, convert that text.fo to XEP  
> intermediate format, using the "-format xep" switch, then we  
> process that text.fo.xep intermediate file, and then produce a pdf  
> out of it.
>
> The text.fo file has the word "_elastic_" in it, like so:
>
> <fo:block font-size="12pt" text-align="left" space-before="0mm"  
> space-after="0mm" start-indent="0mm" end-indent="0mm" text- 
> indent="0mm" span="all" intrusion-displace="line" widows="2"  
> orphans="2">
> _elastic_
> </fo:block>
>
> The word "_elastic_" triggers our processor and cause it do take  
> some actions.
>
> Depending on the font chosen, at times the word "_elastic_" gets  
> into the text.fo.xep intermediate file as one whole word, but  
> sometimes it gets divided into two bits, like so:
>
> <xep:text value="_elas" x="56693" y="774889" width="24528"/>
> <xep:text value="tic_" x="81221" y="774889" width="18000"/>
>
> If the words is available as one whole word, our processor finds  
> it, and handles it properly, but if the processor finds "_elas" and  
> then "tic_" later, it does not recognize this as a special word to  
> be handled, does not get triggered, and therefore does nothing, and  
> the "_elastic" appears in the output pdf, which is undesired.
>
> My question is whether there are any instructions to be given to  
> XEP to put some text as one unit into the intermediate file, like so:
>
> <xep:text value="_elastic_" x="56693" y="774889" width="42528"/>
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Regards,
>
> Teus Benschop
> Free Presbyterian Church

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