Drop Caps

[Barry Whiting]

Hi 

 

I wondered if anybody could help I am trying to do a drop cap at the
begining of each text and have tried using float but for some reason
this seems to be floating something just not what Im expecting.

 

 

                <xsl:for-each
select="exsl:node-set($editorschoice)/Events/Event">

                <xsl:if test="position() = 1 or current()/FurtherSubCat
= preceding-sibling::Event[1]/FurtherSubCat">

                    <fo:block>

                                <fo:float float="start">

                            <fo:block font-family="ZapfDingbats"
font-size="20pt" line-height="28pt" color="rgb(0,0,0)" margin="5pt"
text-depth="0" border="1px solid red">

                                &#x272A;

                            </fo:block>

                        </fo:float><fo:inline
font-family="CaeciliaRomanOsF" font-size="8pt" line-height="9.6pt"
font-weight="bold" color="rgb(0,0,0)">&#160;<xsl:apply-templates
select="current()/Editorial" /></fo:inline>                        

                    </fo:block>

                </xsl:if>

            </xsl:for-each>

 

There seems to be a floating area to the left of the text when processed
by fop but its empty.

 

Thanks

 

Barry