WG: keep-together or span

Dear Madam / Sir, 

we are using XMLMIND XFC to produce Word documents from FO and I have a 
problem of implementing signatures that should look like this:




My expectations would be:
 - no page-break between "Regards" and "Lisa Simpsons", 
 - no empty paragraph after "Lisa Simpsons",
 - "Lisa Simpsons" should be justified (start at a given position, e.g. 10 
cm from the margin).

I tried to use tables, but 
- at the end of the table there is always an empty paragraph (that might 
result in an empty page at the end of the document), 
- keep-together feature does not function for elements which do not 
directly stem from the flow.

I checked other possibilities to solve this problem with list-blocks, but 
it incurs similar problem (elements which do not directly stem from the 
flow cannot be kept together).

Unfortunately span feature is also not implemented, so using a mult-column 
layout and spanning all paragraphs except the last one (with the 
signature) is not doable either.

Even though keep-together.within-page="always" feature is provided to the 
table, this FO does not produce the desired result (has a page break 
between the table and its margin):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:sdt="
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/xsl/extensions/docx/sdt" xmlns:fo="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:fox="
http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions" xmlns:java="
http://xml.apache.org/xalan/java" xmlns:ibex="
http://www.xmlpdf.com/2003/ibex/Format" font="11pt &#34;arial&#34;">
        <fo:layout-master-set>
                <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-first" 
page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm">
                        <fo:region-body margin-bottom="40mm" 
margin-left="20mm" margin-right="20mm" margin-top="96mm"/>
                </fo:simple-page-master>
                <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="basic">
                        <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
                                <fo:conditional-page-master-reference 
master-reference="A4-first" page-position="any"/>
                        </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
                </fo:page-sequence-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>

        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="basic">
                <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block> 
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>
                        <fo:block>Bla</fo:block>

                        <fo:block space-before="12mm" 
keep-with-next.within-page="always">Bart Co.</fo:block>
                        <fo:table margin-top="22pt" 
keep-with-next.within-page="always" keep-together.within-page="always">
                                <fo:table-column column-width="65mm"/>
                                <fo:table-column column-width="65mm"/>
                                <fo:table-body>
                                        <fo:table-row 
keep-with-previous.within-page="always">
                                                <fo:table-cell>
 <fo:block>Bartholomeo</fo:block>
                                                </fo:table-cell>
                                                <fo:table-cell>
 <fo:block>Lisa</fo:block>
                                                </fo:table-cell>
                                        </fo:table-row>
                                </fo:table-body>
                        </fo:table>

                        <fo:block id="last-page" 
keep-with-previous.within-page="always" line-height="0"/>
                </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

I would highly appreciate it if you could suggest me a solution for the 
above-mentioned problem that can be implemented by XMLMIND XFC.
Thanks in advance.

Regards, 

Dezsö Gaal


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