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At 2006-11-26 00:23 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
Is there a way to form relative relative indents in XSL-FO 1.0? Here, the first "relative" means relative to the writing mode, and the second "relative" means relative to the containing block. I'm trying to create nested indents from nested source elements in a language-independent stylesheet, and I'm not finding the right property combination. I can see an object combination and a property combination: For example, in left-to-right writing mode, I can use margin-left in nested fo:block elements: But they are relative to the reference area, so you could introduce a reference area in each block by a block-container. There doesn't seem to be a "margin-start" property, and start-indent does not produce the same additive effect. Is there any way to accomplish this nesting of indents without having to resort to using nested list-blocks or computing a sum for a start-indent? Remember that you can express the sum without computing the sum and let the FO processor do the computation for you ... will that help? So, my two suggestions are nested block-containers and arithmetic expression. Examples below. I hope this helps, Bob. . . . . . . . . . . Ken <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--raw.fo--> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" font-family="Times" font-size="20pt"> <layout-master-set> <simple-page-master master-name="frame" page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm" margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm" margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm"> <region-body region-name="frame-body"/> </simple-page-master> </layout-master-set> <page-sequence master-reference="frame"> <flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <block>This is a test with margin-left</block> <block margin-left="1in">First block. <block margin-left="1in">Second block. <block margin-left="1in">Third block. </block> </block> </block> <block>This is a test with start-indent</block> <block start-indent="1in">First block. <block start-indent="1in">Second block. <block start-indent="1in">Third block. </block> </block> </block> <block>This is a test with arithmetic expressions</block> <block start-indent="1in">First block. <block start-indent="1in+1in">Second block. <block start-indent="1in+1in+1in">Third block. </block> </block> </block> <block>This is a test with block containers</block> <block start-indent="1in">First block. <block-container> <block start-indent="1in">Second block. <block-container> <block start-indent="1in">Third block. </block> </block-container> </block> </block-container> </block> </flow> </page-sequence> </root> -- World-wide corporate, govt. & user group XML, XSL and UBL training G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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