Thanks to Arved Sandstrom for the explanation. I have only one more question: if the extention of the region-before is defined by the magin-top extention of the region body, what is the use of the parameter extent in the declaration of the region-before? Itīs just for clipping?
Denes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arved Sandstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: RE: region boundaries > Comments below. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre Denes dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 27, 2002 11:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: region boundaries > > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with regions. In the simplecol4 example, I changed the > page layout as showed above: > > <fo:layout-master-set> > > <!-- layout for the first page --> > <fo:simple-page-master master-name="only" > page-height="29.7cm" > page-width="21cm" > margin-top="3cm" > margin-bottom="2cm" > margin-left="2.5cm" > margin-right="2.5cm"> > <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="1cm" > column-count="3" column-gap="0.15in"/> > <fo:region-before extent="4cm"/> > <fo:region-after extent="4cm"/> > </fo:simple-page-master> > > </fo:layout-master-set> > <The remaining of the example is the same.> > > When I print the page using acroread, all the margins are ok, but the body > overlapped the before and after regions (the init of the body is at 1.5cm > from the top margin and 1cm from the bottom margin). The text of the after > region was printed four lines before the end of the body region, like a > watermark. > > In my understanding, the extent of the region-after and region-before is the > length of the region, and the region-body should use all the remaining space > in the center (something like the BorderLayout in Java). Is this correct? > > Can someone tell me how the extent works and how can I define a static > length for the before and after regions? > > Thanks in advance > > Denes > > ************************* > > Because of the margings on the page-master, you effectively have a working > area of height (29.7cm - 3cm - 2cm) = 24.7cm, and a width of (21cm - 2.5cm - > 2.5cm) = 16cm. > > There are no changes made to reference-orientation, so the margin directions > on the *region-body* correspond to the page-master directions. As a result, > the region-body (which does _not_ use all the remaining space in the centre) > is inset 1cm from the top, 1cm from the bottom, and 0cm from both left and > right, ending up with a height (also block-progression-dimension in this > case, with the default 'paginate' & 'overflow' settings) of (24.7cm - 1cm - > 1cm) = 22.7cm, and a width (also inline-progression-dimension) of 16cm. > > The before & after regions will overlap by 3cm because the extents on the > outside regions, AND the margins on the region-body, are both measured from > the edges of the content-rectangle of the page: the 24.7cm x 16cm rectangle. > > If you set the margin-top and margin-bottom on the region-body to 5cm you > would have 1cm clearance. In which case the region-body height would be > 14.7cm. > > AHS > >
