On 26 Jan 2011, at 19:42, Rob Sargent wrote:

Hi Rob,

> Is there really no fop way to get consistently placed top and bottom
> lines, such as one expects in a multi-column page of a magazine?

No mechanism defined for this in standard XSL-FO 1.1, unfortunately...

> I can see that this would mean reverse-leading(?) after the contents of
> the page had been established, but it seems a fundamental formatting
> requirement.

IIRC, FOP does take care of column-balancing, but only does so for all but the 
last page. More or less similar to a line-layout, where you generally apply 
alignment justification on all lines but the last.

One possible way out could be to put in a trailing, empty fo:block with 
span="all" set. That should trigger column-balancing, even if the content takes 
up less than one page. In combination with display-align="center", that might 
come very close to what you're looking for. If I understand the requirement 
correctly, that is...

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Andreas
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