Re: (dsssl) Vertical centering

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:00:14AM +0100, David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dan said:
> > More 
> > importantly, I use 
> > "invisible text" to ensure spacing because simply using 
> > space-before on the 
> > first element of the titlepage doesn't accomplish what I want. Maybe 
> > someone else on the list can tell me why.
> 
> Guessing. In xsl-fo, such a circumstance happens, to allow coincident
> whitespace to be collaped, e.g. if two areas have whitespace one below
> and one above, the two are merged.
> I guess DSSSL does the same thing.

Yes, unless both have a property of "force: #t" or something like
that.  But it happens that openjade/jadetex are somewhat buggy in
whitespace treatment - this is currently under investigation.

Regards,
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