Re: [xsl] the fo:block thing

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-01-14 17:42 +0100, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> G. Ken Holman wrote:
> > > What's wrong with <fo:table-row height="22pt">?
> >
> > Matts said he always wanted two lines ... if I only use the height of the 
> > row as above, isn't that elastic and won't it grow if there are more than 
> > two lines of data?
>
> I'm too lazy to look it up right now but IIRC height="22pt"
> means bpd.minimum=bpd.optimum=bpd.maximum="22pt". Because of
> the latter content should overflow rather than grow the row
> height, even though e.g. FOP will grow it (which is a bug).
> Please correct if I remember wrong.

You remember right, which would then mean my answer was wrong ... the line 
shouldn't grow and Tony's suggestion is quite appropriate.

Sorry for the misleading information.

................... Ken

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