I have to agree with Ken--it appears that the XSL-FO spec delegates to
the CSS2 spec to define the semantics of height on rows.
Yes, it is true.
As Ken says, if you want to limit the height of the cell content, you
must put it in an fo:block-container with an explicit height= (or
block-progression-dimension= value).
No, it is not so. block-container with block-progression-dimension
is a workaround which may work in some cases, and will not in others
(when the cell is neihboring another one with row-span!=1). The
correct way to limit the height of a cell is to specify
block-progression-dimension
on the table-cell itself. The specification allows to do so
by explicitely listing block-progression-dimension on fo:table-cell.
There is an error in the specification in that both height and
block-progression-dimension are listed for table-cell. This makes
no sense since height is mapped to block-progression-dimension in
XSL FO.
I admit that proper support of block-progression-dimension on table-cell
may not be available in FOP. But then it is a bug in FOP; XSL FO allows
it and it is the right way to specify cells with fixed height.
David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/
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