At 2009-03-14 16:25 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:
None of the XSL-FO reference material I had at hand treated the
problem of vertical alignment of static content in the region-before
(except to say that I could not control the edges parallel to the
edge of the paper) , so by Easter egging the properties, I hacked a
solution for keeping the header content down a bit from the upper
edge of the region-before.
A couple of approaches would have been more concise than you ended up using.
I found that the whitespace-collapse ="false" property had no effect
(or I misunderstood its use), so I used a hard blank.
When you want "hard line" that isn't collapsed, use a space leader
rather than a non-breaking space. I tell my students if the want the
effect of the HTML:
<br/><br/>
... to just use:
<block><leader/></block>
... but I don't think the appropriate approach to your solution would
be with such a "hard line".
You were getting close to one approach by using retained space, but
you mistyped:
<fo:block space-after.conditionality="retain" space-after="0.25">
... note the length specification is missing a unit of measure, so it
has no effect at all. Did you mean .25cm or .25in or something
else? The above ends up having no effect.
Anyway, two questions.
(1) This has to be a common problem. Is there a better solution that
I just could not find?
i - increase the upper page margin so that when the text lines up
with the top of the region, that top is farther down the page ... the
distance from the top of the page to the top of the header text is
the same on every page regardless of the amount of header text
ii - use display-align="after" so that the text grows up from the
bottom of the region ... this way the distance from the bottom of the
header text and the top of the body text is the same on every page
regardless of the amount of header text
iii - use a retained space-before on your header text:
<fo:block text-align="center" space-before=".25in"
space-before.conditionality="retain"
>21st Century Index</fo:block>
(2) is there an XSL-FO cookbook similar to the O'Reilly XSLT
Cookbook that treats XSL-FO problems? Or a website?
Not that I know of.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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