Drawing a line between two region-body columns

2002-04-20 Thread Patrick Andries
I have divided the region-body in two. I would now like to draw a single 
line separating the two columns, can this be done ?

Is there any way to write something in the column-gap ? Alternatively, 
since I am having a block flowing from one column to another could I 
have the right column block's left border to appear but not the left 
column  block's left border to appear.  

I.e.
right column of block ...   |  ... left column of block and not the 
usual
| right column of block ...   |  ... left column of block which is 
easy to get with block border-left=1pt 

I see no way for this to work, but I would really like it to.
Patrick Andries






Re: Drawing a line between two region-body columns

2002-04-20 Thread Patrick Andries

J.Pietschmann wrote:
Patrick Andries wrote:
I have divided the region-body in two. I would now like to draw a 
single line separating the two columns, can this be done ?

Is there any way to write something in the column-gap ? 
Alternatively, since I am having a block flowing from one column to 
another could I have the right column block's left border to appear 
but not the left column  block's left border to appear. 

You can use static content in a region overlapping
the region-body with the text flow. Use an empty block
or table with absolute positioning and height settings. 
Yes, as often the solutions proposed assume absolute positions, I would 
much prefer to be able to do this sort of thing starting after a number 
of arbitrary blocks (spanned here). I think that the region-body should 
not indicate the number of columns, but one or several flow-body (let's 
say) which could have varying number of columns (1,2,3...). A model 
superior to what is available today (one can only indicate a fixed 
number of columns or span them). Would also be nice if this flow-body 
could then have decoration attributes for the column gap or for the 
different borders of the columns defined. Just an idea.

BTW please post this kind of questions only to fop-user. 

In general, avoid cross posting to both lists. 
Ok.
P. Andries