side heads?

[Mike Sierra]

I'm trying to emulate an existing page layout with FOP, relying heavily 
on O'Reilly's XSL-FO book for reference.  It's unclear from that book  
from fop's examples how I can do this, so instead I'll shamelessly rely 
on your expertise.  ;-)

I have rather wide sidebar area (defined as a region-end) into which I 
want to float selected blocks, such as callouts  small graphics. It 
should flow roughly like this:

+---+
|.  |
|.  |
|A   .  |
|.  |
|...|
|.  |
|.  |
|C   .  B   |
|.  |
|.  |
|...|
|.  |
|.  |
|D   .  |
|.  |
+---+
The 'float' tag appears to do what I want, but it's not implemented yet 
(as of 0.20.5).  Is there another way to get this kind of output?  
Extra credit -- assuming I can automate this marginal material, can the 
area bleed into the region-body, like so?

+---+
|.  |
|.  |
|A   .  |
|.  |
|...|
|.  |
|.  |
|   C.  B   |
|.  |
|.  |
|...|
|.  |
|.  |
|D   .  |
|.  |
+---+
Thanks in advance,
--Mike
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Re: side heads?

[J.Pietschmann]

Mike Sierra wrote:
The 'float' tag appears to do what I want, but it's not implemented yet 
(as of 0.20.5).  Is there another way to get this kind of output?
Not if you want to have the side bar in a static content. A blind
table in the body is the way to go (watch out for the usual memory
problems).
 Extra 
credit -- assuming I can automate this marginal material, can the area 
bleed into the region-body, like so?
It depends. Regions may overlap, but content in one region can't
displace content in another region.
J.Pietschmann
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