[xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables

[DESEYNE Jacques]

Gabriel,

Did you try specifying text-depth to control the descent below the baseline, e.g.:

[...]
<fo:table-cell border="0.1pt solid black" height="15pt" display-align="center">
  <fo:block text-depth="0"> 12345 </fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
[...]



BRs,

Jacques

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Gabriel Birke
Sent: woensdag 27 januari 2010 9:57
To: xep-support at renderx.com
Subject: RE: [xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables

Hi, 

here is the sample for the alignment problem, a table with four cells. Zoom in to the table and you will see in the upper left cell that the whitespace is bigger at the bottom than at the top - because the renderer (correctly) takes the descender height into consideration when centering. You can see that in the lower left cell: The whitespace distance between the top border and the "M" is the same as the distance between the bottom border and the "gj".

In the right cells I have tried various means of optically aligning the numbers by shifting the baseline by 10% or adding a 3pt padding at the top.
But the values come from experimentation and not from the font metrics. So my question is this: Is there a way to vertically center text in a cell, that takes only the font metrics above the baseline into consideration?

Greetings,

Gabriel
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com
> [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Karl Stubsjoen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:17 PM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables
> 
> Gabriel,
> Would you mind sending a sample FO?  If none is available, maybe a 
> sample XML and XSL source.  A small snippet would be fine, and 
> possibly a PDF sample demonstrating the alignment issue.
> Thanks,
> Karl..
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com
> [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com]
> On Behalf Of Gabriel Birke
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:19 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: [xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have some tables that only contain numbers. The number must be 
> vertically centered. However, in our font, Franklin Gothic, all the 
> numbers start on the baseline and have the same height as the caps. 
> This gives the optical effect that vertically centered numbers have 
> more whitespace below them than above.
> 
> I must confess that I am utterly confused by all the alignment 
> properties in the XSL-FO specification. Can someone point out to me 
> how I can center the numbers based on the cap height of the font and 
> not based on overall the font height?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Gabriel Birke
> 
> 
> 
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