On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:31 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > 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. > OK, another entry on the todo list. This is really about getting the basic page, viewport, region geometry right not the details of the BIDI algorithm, glyphs, fonts, mirroring, ....
> 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 Manuel
