Subject: FOs. WD UNCLEAR: space-before problem. From: "Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:28:20 -0700 |
<WD> 3.3.2 Space and Margin Properties The "space-before", "space-after", "space-start", and "space-end" properties are handled very similarly to the properties immediately above, but the corresponding absolute properties are in the set: "margin-top", "margin-bottom", "margin-left", and "margin-right". Again the correspondance between the relative property and the corresponding absolute property is determined by the "writing-mode" property of the formatting object. For example, at the top level of a document, if the "writing-mode" is "lr-tb", then "space-before" corresponds to "margin-top", but if the "writing-mode" is "tb-rl", the "space-before" corresponds to "margin-right". </WD> The rest of WD talks about space-before having only one Allowed Value - compound datatype. (Space Specifier) (3.3.2) can not coexist with Space Specifier, because margin-bottom has one type, but space-before has another type. If for some reason WD wants to introduce a (very) special case, like: " space-before = '1pt' is not a shorthand, but still *valid* construction " it this case 3.3.2 looks reasonable. ( but the workaround itself looks strange. At the moment everything in WD (except 3.2.2 ) works against such point of view ). Actualy , the question is simple space-before = "1pt" Is it valid construction, or not? Rgds.Paul. PS. space-* appears to be vary importent construstion used in almost every document. > So far we are receiving some FO documents > through our FO Validating Service ( www.renderx.com). > > It appears that almost every user who starts with > FOs is making one 'mistake'. The 'mistake' is to > consider > > space-before/space-after to be a *shorthand*. > > That means that instead of using > > space-before.minimum = "10pt" e t.c. > > people are using > > space-before = "value1 value2 ..." > > Suggested workaround: > > 1. Let space-before/after to be shorthands > ( in addition to existing situation ) ;-) > > 2. Make it clear in WD that Space Specifier > is *not* a shorthand. > > Rgds.Paul. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= paul@xxxxxxxxx www.renderx.com www.pault.com XMLTube * Perl/JavaConnector * PerlApplicationServer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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