Hi devs, I have attached a picture of how I think this process should work (in principle not necessarily with actual areas or code).
The spec should say something like: 4.7.2 A block level formatting object which contains inline level formatting objects that will create inline areas will create lines. Any block level areas that are return by child formatting objects will be placed as direct children of this block area. Any inline level areas which area return by child formatting objects will be placed into line areas. Consecutive inline areas will be placed into line areas. The sequence of child areas returned to this block area will be handled so that a sequence of inline areas will be placed into a sequence of line areas and block areas will be placed in the correct order. (part 5. point 1 then says that any child fo that returns a block area means that the block area is a direct child of the current block area) 4.7.3 An inline level formatting object creates and returns inline areas and returns any block areas. Each line area can contain only one inline area created by the inline level formatting object. This inline area is created by adding child inline areas that are allowed in the parent line area (it is not required to fit, eg. no wrap). 6.6.7 (and other inline fo's) Areas: The fo:inline returns these areas, any block areas, any page-level-out-of-line ... ---------------- So does that make more sense? I think some of the confusion is that a block area can create multiple block areas but this only occurs at page/column breaks. Regards, Keiron.
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