[xep-support] aligning text in two blocks or columns

Ron Catterall ron at catterall.net
Thu Oct 5 07:23:15 PDT 2006


Doesn'nt this land us back in all the HTML horrors of using <table> 
to achieve formatting.  Use <table> to produce tables - consider 
machine searching XMl to extract tables, what output is required? not 
assorted text which happened to have been formatted as a table.

>It probably works to put the title in one cell of a table, and have 
>the other cell empty, and then put the text in a new table.
>
>Teus.
>Geoff Levner wrote:
>>Suppose you have two columns, or two blocks side by side, 
>>containing text.  Now suppose that one of the two contains a title, 
>>for example, in a bigger font, followed by normal text.  Is there 
>>any way in XSL to ensure that the text remains aligned in the two 
>>columns?  That is, to add or remove a little space before or after 
>>the title, if necessary, so that the lines of text following it 
>>line up with those in the other column?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Geoff
>>
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