Thanks, I will give it a go. Pity XSL FO does not support this concept,
hopefully, this is something that will make it into the new version of
the specification.
At 2008-08-19 10:42 +1000, Kamal Bhatt wrote:
I want to ensure that when a block breaks on a new page, the top of
the content has a certain amount of spacing before it, how can I do
this?
XSL-FO will put widowed lines of a block at the top of the main
reference area in the region body ... there is no way I can think of
to push those lines below the top margin of the body.
I have tried using space-before and and played with margins, but to
no avail (that said, I am using FOP which hasn't got full
space-before support yet).
I am not familiar with the facilities in FOP.
I cannot put the margin at the top of the region body because I have
a background image.
But you can position the background image offset from the margin of
the region body.
The example below has the lines of text starting at 15mm from the top
edge of the page and the image is offset higher by 20pt so you can see
20pts of the image above the top line. Without the
background-position-vertical= property of a negative value the top of
the image would have lined up with the top line at the top of the body
region.
So set your body margin where you want your text to wrap and then
calculate a negative offset to position the top of your background
higher.
I'm looking at working results in Antenna House ... I cannot vouch for
FOP.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--background.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">
<layout-master-set>
<simple-page-master master-name="frame"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body"
background-image="harbour.jpg"
background-position-vertical="-20pt"
background-repeat="no-repeat"/>
</simple-page-master>
</layout-master-set>
<page-sequence master-reference="frame">
<flow flow-name="frame-body"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<block>This is a test</block>
</flow>
</page-sequence>
</root>
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