RE: Is fo:block an area-container?

[Bovone Stefano <Stefano.Bovone@xxxxxxxx>]

And a fo:block with positioning (relative or absolute) ?
I think may be an area-container.

Is fo:display-include-container an area-container ?
I think yes.

Bye.

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> Subject: 	Re: Is fo:block an area-container?
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> fo:block is NOT an area-container.
> 
> However, writing-mode is used by fo:block to determine all the progression
> directions and the orientation of start/end/before/after, but the value
> can't be changed on fo:block from that on the containing area-container.
> 
> We are working on clarifying this in the next draft.
> 
> 
> At 17:00 1999-10-04 GMT, you wrote:
> >Why does the description for fo:block (section 4.4.1 in the current
> >XSL WD) list writing-mode as one of its properties? An fo:block
> >supposedly generates a block-area, not an area-container, and section
> >3.4.6 contains the following sentence:
> >
> >"A block-area's 'writing-mode" is the same as the writing-mode of the
> >immediated containing area-container."
> >
> >-Steve Schafer
> >
> >
> > XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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