That looks very promising. Although I don't need the box to run along the margins of the entire page, it appears I should be able to specify a nonzero value for top and get what I need. Thanks for the help.
Eric Amick Systems Engineer II Legislative Computer Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Box around multi-column text? > > Hi Eric, > > Sorry for the late reply. You may be able to achieve something by using > absolutely positioned block-containers in the region-before. Have a > look at the attached FO file. > > HTH, > Vincent > > > Amick, Eric wrote: > > That's very close to what I need; the problem is that I want the box > > to have a straight line across the bottom, and that doesn't happen if > > the columns are not all the same size. Even putting an empty block > > with span="all" afterwards doesn't absolutely guarantee that. > > > > Eric Amick Systems Engineer II > > Legislative Computer Systems > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: bonekrusher [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Sunday, June 6, 2010 14:58 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Box around multi-column text? > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> You can put a border on your fo:block... > >> > >> > >> > >> Amick, Eric wrote: > >>> I'm sending this question here on the off chance there is something > >>> peculiar to FOP in the solution. I am trying to have some flowing > >>> multi-column text that has a box around the entire text, i.e., on > > the > >>> before-, after-, start-, and end-edges. Is this even possible in > FO? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Eric Amick Systems Engineer II > >>> > >>> U.S. House of Representatives | Office of the Clerk | > > Legislative > >>> Computer Systems > >>> Office: 202-225-1182 > >>> > >>> http://clerk.house.gov <http://clerk.house.gov/> > >>> > >>> > >>> Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Box-around- > multi- > >> column-text--tp28783284p28793179.html > >> Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: > >> [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users- > [email protected] > >
