Re: Is fo:block an area-container?

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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