Re: [xsl] Block (container) - one line at the top and one at the bottom - how to achieve this ?

["Kerry, Richard richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ken, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

>Here you are talking about the page, later you are talking about a
>block container.

Indeed, both are right but I didn't give all the details.  I am working on a
page.  The page is divided into sections, one of which is the container in
question.  It covers roughly the top quarter of the page (noting
bottom="200mm" from my original attempt).

>> display-align="after" in a block-container.
>You've been misinformed if this is all that you've been told ... it
>is only part of the solution.

Indeed - correct but not complete.  It is the key to getting something to go
to the bottom of a box.  But there's the next bit in order to get the extra
spacing.

>Lines are always stacked adjacent to each other, so nothing need be
>said about the first line ... it will be adjacently stacked to the last line.

Blocks (lines) becoming adjacent was the constraint I needed to know how to
(appear to) change.  I could see that something needed to expand but didn't
know how to get that to happen.  The extra container does this.  I've only
picked up FO through working with it a bit from DocBook so I don't necessarily
know these kinds of rules.


The example runs fine in FOP (probably to be expected as it's all standard
stuff).
My file now has something like:

  <fo:block-container
   absolute-position="fixed"
   right="2mm"    left="25mm"   top="30mm"   bottom="230mm"
   display-align="after"
   >

 <fo:block-container  absolute-position="absolute" >
   <fo:block  border="1pt solid red" margin-left="4pt" margin-right="4pt"
margin-top="2pt" margin-bottom="2pt">
  line 1
   </fo:block>
 </fo:block-container >
 <fo:block  border="1pt solid red" margin-left="4pt" margin-right="4pt"
margin-top="2pt" margin-bottom="2pt">
  line 2
 </fo:block>

 </fo:block-container >

I've not used flows as these are guaranteed to be single line text so I don't
need anything to flow.
The framework (layout-masters, page-sequences, etc) is straight out of Docbook
so I've not mentioned it here.

Appreciatively,
Richard.
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