Re: More free-form layouts - side-by-side

Thanks again for the example, which certainly shows the four blocks being show
in the quadrants as required.



What I'm not at all clear about is the meaning of the
block-progression-dimension attributes.  It's absolutely clear that they are
necessary - if I remove any one of them from the inner block-containers then
its block-container collapses to the height of the text block it contains.  If
I remove it from the outermost one then the whole block as displayed collapses
to the height of any one of the line blocks.



I can't find a clear explanation of what block-progression-dimension does and
what its parameter means.





Also I note that the bottom two block-containers (yellow and purple), with
block-progression-dimension as given, stretch to the bottom of the page, not
its margins.



Using FOP.







<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--blockcont-split2.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">
        <!--the outer container sets the frame-->
        <block-container block-progression-dimension="100%"
       border="2pt solid blue">
          <block
      border="2pt solid green"
      >Top left</block>
          <!--the inner containers are within the frame-->
          <block-container absolute-position="absolute"

                           left="50%"
         border="2pt solid red"
         >
            <block
     border="2pt solid green"
     >Top right</block>
          </block-container>
          <block-container absolute-position="absolute"

                           top="50%"
         border="2pt solid purple"
         >
   <block
     border="2pt solid green"
     >Bottom left</block>
          </block-container>
          <block-container absolute-position="absolute"

                           left="50%" top="50%"
         border="2pt solid yellow"
         >
   <block
    border="2pt solid green"
    >Bottom right</block>
    </block-container>
        </block-container>
      </flow>
    </page-sequence>
 </root>



>
>+-------------------------------------+
>|+------------+         +------------+|
>||A           |         |B           ||
>|+------------+         +------------+|
>|                                     |
>|                                     |
>|+------------+         +------------+|
>||C           |         |D           ||
>|+------------+         +------------+|
>+-------------------------------------+

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