Re: [xsl] XSL-FO alignment

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 2006-05-04 00:09 +1000, Kamal Bhatt wrote:
>
> > I have the following XSL-FO script:
>
>
> (thank you for providing a complete file)
>
> >       <fo:block font-family="Courier" font-size="10pt" 
> > space-before="6pt"
> > space-after="6pt" text-align="left"
> >                 border-style="solid" border-width="0.25pt"
> >                 padding-left="4pt" padding-right="4pt" padding-top="6pt"
> > padding-bottom="6pt" line-height="15pt">
>
>
> According to XSL-FO 1.0 Section 5.3.2, your specification above will 
> draw the border *outside* of the parent boundary limits ... unlike 
> CSS.  This guarantees that the text of the border block lines up with 
> the text of an adjacent unbordered block.  If you wanted the border to 
> line up with the text, use margin-left="0pt" in addition to your other 
> properties.
No, I want it outside of the text. I am basing this fo on a windows doc 
and that is what we do. On a related note, (and maybe someone here 
doesn't know this) am I correct in saying that the way word defines 
points, and even cm different to FO and everyone else?

> > Firstly, I would am still confused about the difference between
> > space-before and padding-before and padding-top. If someone could 
> > explain
> > that to me, that would be great.
>
>
> The space-before= property defines the space between the adjacent 
> block area and the area's border rectangle (which is the outside edge 
> of the border).
>
> The padding-before= and padding-top= both specify the distance between 
> the area's padding rectangle (which is the inside edge of the border) 
> and the area's content rectangle.  The only difference between 
> padding-before= and padding-top= is that the use of 
> writing-direction-dependent values of before/after/start/end are 
> portable across different languages while the CSS heritage 
> top/bottom/left/right are biased to left-to-right/top-down writing 
> directions.

So for english it does n't matter what I use, but I should probably use 
before/after/start/end? What about space-* vs padding-*?

> Both spacing and padding are in play since they define different 
> concepts.
>
> > Secondly, I would like the table aligned with the border of block before
> > it.
>
>
> Then add margin-left="0pt" to ensure that the border does not "push 
> out" such that its context text aligns with the text of neighbouring 
> blocks.
That sounds like what I want to do.


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