no offense at all i understand completely, i wasn't asking such an effort. Just thought you as usual would eventually point out some standard requirement fulfilled by the tool or some known behaviour that i was missing or misreading. In effect i would also have known if you were planning to remove this limitation.
thanks for the helpful clarification. ----- Original Message ----- From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> To: Simone Parotta <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:13:22 PM GMT+0100 Europe/Berlin Subject: Re: [XFC] Fwd: block Simone Parotta wrote: > > ok, but i mean how is it managed? > For example in an ODT document, which is my main concern, apparently the > block element is ignored if it's empty (no newline is created) while if block > contains some text, then is sorrounded with new-lines as expected. > > I've not investigated on more complex scenarios, anyway it seems that when > block is empty is handled differently or even ignored, since i think it > should be the standard behaviour of the block element to have new-lines after > and before if not otherwise specified. > > is my guess wrong? > No offense intend, just a fact: Answering this kind of question means spending several hours looking at the source code of the product. Something we cannot afford to do, given the fact that, in all cases, we do not plan to remove this kind of limitation in the near future. > i've forgotten to specify that this issue about the block element only > happens when block is inside an inline element -- XMLmind FO Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xfc-support
