[FOP-666] text-align and text-align-last only partially implemented

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.94
• Component/s: unqualified
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• External issue ID: 20280
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lee Gaiteri
• Created: 27/May/03 23:16
• Updated: 16/Dec/12 08:20

Description

I'm seeing this in trying to convert to PDF format, but I think it's a general
issue. I'm using version 0.20.5rc3a. If I use any fo:block or fo:inline element
with the text-align attribute set to "outside", I get an error:

[ERROR] Unknown enumerated value for property 'text-align': outside
[ERROR] Error in text-align property value 'outside':
org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined

Trying "inside" will produce a similar error. And text-align-last is even worse,
failing also to allow "left", "right", and "relative". Compliance for these is
simply pass/fail, which should mean that they're either implemented to spec
(allowing all 8 values for text-align, all 9 for text-align-last) or they're
not. There's not even so much as a note in the compliance document to the effect
that they're only partially supported.

This should be an easy fix, but as a stopgap some note could be put into the
compliance document to say that they're not fully implemented, and which values
don't work.