> -----Original Message----- > From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 24, 2002 6:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Spaces and precedence > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: April 24, 2002 5:17 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Spaces and precedence > > > > Ralf Steppacher wrote: > > > I have a short question about spaces and precedences: > > > What I want is to suppress additional space if one headline directly > > > follows another. > > > > > > To achieve this I wrote the template with FOs below but it does > > not work > > > (I played a bit with attributes and values and could not find > any other > > > working solution using precendences). Could anybody please tell me > > > whether my FO is wrong or this is a limitation of FOP? > > > > After having read the spec several times, i got the impression > > that space-*.precedence is for prioritizing space reservations > > coming from stuff from the same area. > > > > Roughly: > > <fo:block space-before="10pt" precedence="1"> > > <fo:block space-before="5pt" precedence="2"> > > stuff > > ... > > will put "stuff" 5pt after preceding content. > > > > This means, precedence can't be used to collapse space-after > > and space-before of consecutive blocks. > > Assuming Western reference-orienattion and writing mode, clause 3a of > Section 4.2.5 indicates that if the border-after-width and > padding-after of > the first block are zero, and the border-before-width and > padding-before of > the second block are zero, that we have a block-stacking constraint. > > In which case the precedence on the space-fater of the one and the > space-before of the other can be used precisely to achieve this collapsing > effect. > > Regards, > Arved Sandstrom >
Read "orientation" and "space-after" :-) "orienattion" is one of my top mistyping words (like "retrun"), but "fater" is new. :-) Normally I don't have 2 in one post. Drives me nuts. AHS
