Thanks Tony:

> Try fo:initial-property-set [1].  It's allowed at the beginning of
> fo:block [2].  There's an example in the XSL 1.1 Recommendation [3].
> 
> However, fo:initial-property-set is required only for 'extended'
> conformance [4] and might not be implemented by your particular XSL
> formatter, so YMMV.

Unfortunately I tried this, but I'm using FOP and the property appears
to be ignored. Is there anything I can do as an alternative? Is there
a way of determining if a piece of text is likely to exceed the margins?

Cheers
Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Graham [mailto:Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 2:48 a.m.
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSL-FO - border straying where it is not wanted

On Wed, Mar 18 2009 13:32:55 +0000, trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am formatting high-level titles with an "overline" for emphasis, using
> border-top.
...
> My problem is that where my input has a very long title, the border wraps
> with the title and the border above the second line cuts through the first
> line of the title. I would like to truncate the border at the margin in
this
> situation, but I probably need to use a different technique to achieve
> that.

Try fo:initial-property-set [1].  It's allowed at the beginning of
fo:block [2].  There's an example in the XSL 1.1 Recommendation [3].

However, fo:initial-property-set is required only for 'extended'
conformance [4] and might not be implemented by your particular XSL
formatter, so YMMV.

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_initial-property-set
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_block
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e9780
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#conform