[xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables

[Gabriel Birke]

Hi Jacques,

this is excatly what I was looking for! Thank you! 

Greetings,

Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com 
> [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of DESEYNE Jacques
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:33 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Aligning numbers in tables
> 
> 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..
> > 
> > 
> > Karl Stubsjoen
> > Senior Sales Engineer / Professional Services RenderX, Inc. 
> > (Phoenix, AZ)
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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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