Re: question about spacing around nested display flow object

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:11:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Corte writes:
> >
> >  > Section 12.5.4.1 of the DSSSL spec contains some information of
> >  > the proposed handling of adjacent display spaces. If one considers
> >  > the display spaces of the nested blocks as "adjacent", I think it
> >  > should be 30pt here.
> >
> > well, thats the question - is "nested" the same as "adjacent"? I am
> > not convinced....
> 
> Since display-group flob (12.6.2) is "formatted to produce the
> concatenation of the areas produced by each of its children" , and
> since space-before: and space-after: are objects "of type
> display-space specifying space to be inserted before (after) ... the
> areas produced by the flow object" - I read this that the nesting is
> effectively flattened and the before/after spaces from the two display
> groups are in fact adjacent.

That was the intended meaning.

James



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