margin-left always stays on the left side. The FO spec makes a clear distinction between absolute (left, top, right, bottom) and relative (start, end, before, after) properties.
lr: left=start, right=end rl: left=end, right=start So you obviously hit a bug. We haven't paid so much attention to the different writing modes, yet, especially since we don't support any of the other writing modes. For me personally, the main reason is the lack of knowledge about non-latin languages. On 30.08.2005 07:02:57 Manuel Mall wrote: > If I set the writing mode on a page master to "rl" (arabic/hebrew) and > than define margin-left and right on the region body where are these > margins suppose to appear on the output device, i.e. would margin-left > still be on the left side of the paper and margin-right on the right > side? > > A sample fo is further below. My problem is that on the generated PDF > the margin-left is on the right and vice versa. And I am not sure if > that is correct. > > Manuel > > <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; > xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> > <fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:simple-page-master master-name="normal" page-width="3in" > page-height="5in" margin="18pt" writing-mode="rl"> > <fo:region-body margin-top="18pt" margin-bottom="12pt" > margin-left="15pt" margin-right="36pt" background-color="yellow" /> > <fo:region-before extent="18pt" background-color="blue" > precedence="true" /> > <fo:region-after extent="12pt" background-color="green" > precedence="true" /> > <fo:region-start extent="36pt" background-color="red" /> > <fo:region-end extent="15pt" background-color="orange" /> > </fo:simple-page-master> > </fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:page-sequence master-reference="normal" > white-space-collapse="true"> > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before"> > <fo:block> > r e g i o n b e f o r e > </fo:block> > </fo:static-content> > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"> > <fo:block> > r e g i o n a f t e r > </fo:block> > </fo:static-content> > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-start"> > <fo:block> > r e g i o n s t a r t > </fo:block> > </fo:static-content> > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-end"> > <fo:block> > r e g i o n e n d > </fo:block> > </fo:static-content> > <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> > <fo:block> > Demonstrates an 18pt margin on the page master. > The page size is 5in x 3in. On the region body we have: > margin-top="18pt" margin-bottom="12pt" margin-left="15pt" > margin-right="36pt". > </fo:block> > </fo:flow> > </fo:page-sequence> > </fo:root> Jeremias Maerki
