Re: [xsl] FO question, reg. display-align attribute

Subject: Re: [xsl] FO question, reg. display-align attribute
From: David Tolpin <dvd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:57:01 +0400 (AMT)
> Now I came across a FO containing somewhere the value "right" for
> display-align.
> 
> When I try to render this FO using XEP, I get a nice error message (saying
> something like: you can't use 'right' here it must be one of
> auto,before,center,after, inherit.)
> 
> However:
> The XSL Formatter from Antenna house doesn't seem to mind, it gives no error
> or warning and happily generates PDF (which looks correct)
> 
> Now the strange thing is that both renderers claim to be based on the
> canidate Recommendation of November 21, 2000 - and even in that version,
> left and right are not mentioned as legal values for the attribute
> display-align.
> 
> I am confused, can you help me?

display-align specifies alignment in block-progression-direction. What, in your
opinion, should 'right' mean in connection with block-progression-direction?

David Tolpin
RenderX

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