The fo:block-container is supported in fop-0.93, but I've found it does not
always work as expected (e.g., the "bottom" property seems to have no effect).
You will also have better results if you define a width and height for the
block-container and put a temporary border on it so you can see what is going
on. I put this example in my fo file just before the closing tag for fo:flow.
The red box with the words appeared on the last page that had content.
<fo:block-container absolute-position="fixed" height="30mm" width="50mm"
border="0.5pt solid red" left="50mm" top="50mm">
<fo:block>GOT BLOCK-CONTAINER</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hendy Irawan
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:21 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] block-container with absolute-position="fixed" not
working
Hi,
I have been creating a customization layer for DocBook XSL with very nice
results. Switched some fonts, tweaked things here and there, the goal is to
have the "almost-professionally-published" look end the result right from the
start.
I use DocBook DG + Sagehill's book as a guide. (Sagehill turned out to be
very concise in its explanation regarding tweaking the XSL-FO... perhaps I
should get the XSL-FO book from O'Reilly)
The problem I currently have right now is how to put the 'chapter title' in a
fixed position on the top-left corner of the page. First I tried using
<fo:block absolute-position="fixed"> with lots of options and didn't work.
After some searching on the net it turned out that 'fixed' only supported by
'block-container'. Switching to this one though, still doesn't work.
Even something like this:
<fo:block-container>
<fo:block>TEST</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
When inserted into the titlepage's body flow, generated nothing (not even the
text). Removing the block-container "works", in that it displays the "TEST"
word but there is no way I get the block to freely position it somewhere.
I use Saxon 6 with FOP 0.93. Does this have anything to do with FOP?
Please help. Thank you very much, I really appreciate any help.
--
Hendy Irawan
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