Since both the text preceding the nested block and the text following the nested block are within the indented block, the text after the nested block gets indented. You'd need to move the text after the nested block to its own block to not have it be indented.
<fo:block text-indent="5"> This is just for testing purpose and this line will be indented. <fo:block>this is the nested block </fo:block> </fo:block> <fo:block> The text following the nested block is indented as well...not sure if this is as per spec. since it does not happen in other renderers. </fo:block> If other rendering engines are NOT indenting the text after the nested block, then they are not honoring the spec. The attributes of a block should be applied to ALL the things within the block (unless specifically overridden by a child element's attributes). HTH Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies) "Puppala, Kumar (LNG-DAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/16/2005 12:31 PM Please respond to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org To "'fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org'" <fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org> cc Subject text-indent issue If I have text-indent specified on an fo:block and if I have a nested block within this, the text following this nested block is indented as well. For example: <fo:block text-indent="5"> This is just for testing purpose and this line will be indented. <fo:block>this is the nested block </fo:block> The text following the nested block is indented as well...not sure if this is as per spec. since it does not happen in other renderers. </fo:block> In the above example, the text following the second block should not be indented since text-indent applies only to the first line of that block and not to any subsequent text in that block. Is there a way to get around this issue by specifying some property on the first block? I appreciate your help. Thanks, Kumar Puppala --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]