> 1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a "xsl-region-before". > Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always > printed at the very > top of the page. > > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before" > margin-top="2cm" margin-left="2cm" > margin-right="2cm" > I think margin is a property of the page-master (correct me if I'm wrong), but you are right in that it doesn't seem to work on the region-before, even in the examples provided with FOP. Probably a bug.
> > 2. Cannot set the FONT of a "fo:retrieve-marker" used in a > "xsl-region-before". > It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. > <fo:block keep-together="auto" font-size="8pt"> > <fo:retrieve-marker > retrieve-class-name="mrkState" > retrieve-boundary="page" > retrieve-position="first-starting-within-page"/> > </fo:block> Set this property on the block around fo:marker instead. > > 3. Cannot set the height of a "fo:leader" to a small amount. > The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. > > <fo:block> > <fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" > space-after.optimum="4pt" > space-before="0pt" line-height="1pt"/> > </fo:block> Can't comment on the height but haven't noticed the leading whitespace. The properties on preceding block perhaps? What else is on this line? > > 4. Problem using "keep-with-next" across page and column breaks of > multi-column pages. > Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better > controlling KEEPS in > a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The > KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; > however, the KEEP-WITH > NEXT does not appear to work. Odd, keep-together only worked for me on table-rows, not cells. Haven't used keep-with-next. Regards, Roland
