RE: background in block container

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Williams
>
> I've tried (I think) what you suggested, that is to control the border an
> background colour from the page's region-body.
>
<snip />
> This gives me a nice grey background, but it doesn't enclose it
> in a border.
> Have you any idea why?

Yup, you're right about the general idea, but IIC, borders are yet
unimplemented for the regions (in FOP that is).

> I've tried the following:
>
> <fo:region-body margin-top="2.53968253968254cm"
> margin-left="2.87393298059965cm" margin-right="3.02393298059965cm"
> margin-bottom="2.53968253968254cm" background-color="rgb(226, 226, 226)"
> border-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" border-style="solid" border-width="1pt" />
>

So what I actually meant by 'leave the borders where they are' was to leave
them on the block-container in the static content...
>
> Also, I would like to be able to control where the borders start (ie not
> merely around the margins of the page) eg if the left margin is 3cms from
> the left edge of the page, I might want the border and background to start
> 1cm from the left edge of the page.
>

... that way this should pose no real problem. You can do the same BTW for
the region-start and region-end to have the background 'extend' beyond the
region-body's boundaries (--and have static-contents in them to add a twist
to the borders)

> Is there an easy way to achieve this.
>

Well, depends on what you call easy, not? ;)

Have fun!

Cheers,

Andreas


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