Re: background in block container

Hello,

Hello,

You are correct. It should work. I made a sample here:

http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/pdf/sample-block-container_2.pdf
http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/fo/sample-block-container_2.fo

But block-container will not be the solution for your case.
The reason is texts in the block container will not flow to the 
next block-container in next page.


BTW: XSL Formatter V2.5 and V3.x implements extensions of border
for region-x. Following are examples:

http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/pdf/ext-region-border_1.pdf
http://www.antennahouse.com/www/XSLsample/fo/ext-region-border_1.fo

It would be easier to use these extensions than other tricks for 
your purpose.

Best regards,

Toksuhige Kobayashi

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Hi,

Still having problems with backgrounds in block-containers.

The following works as I would expect it to, placing the border on the
region-body's left and top margins and at the require width and height:

<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
 <fo:block-container position="absolute" left="0cm" top="0cm" width="19cm"
height="27cm" background-color="rgb(192, 192, 192)" border-color="rgb(0, 0,
0)" border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
  <fo:block>&#160; </fo:block>
  </fo:block-container>


However, if instead of width and height I specify right and bottom
coordinates of 0cms, I thought that, in accordanc with the spec I would get
a borders that would correspond precisely with all of the region-body's
margins (Eg the spec says of the right property: "This property specifies
how far a box's right margin edge is offset to the left of the right edge of
the box's containing block").

Instead I get a miniscule block in the top left corner.

Can anyone please tell me why?  How do I draw a block-container with
reference to the bottom and right margins?

Unfortunately, it is impracticable for me to use width and height settings
because the page-sequence may contain repeating-alternatives for first, odd
and even pages, any of which can have different margin settings.

TIA for any help.

Regards,

Mark Williams

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Williams" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re:  background in block container


> Thanks everyone.
>
> I now have a better idea of what to do and will have a fiddle.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas L. Delmelle" <a_l.delmelle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:45 PM
> Subject: RE:  background in block container
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: G. Ken Holman
> > > >
> > >
> > > The specification says there are no borders on regions.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for pointing this, I almost thought it was a FOP-deficiency :)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andreas
> >
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