Hey, I make mistakes. If you guys find anything wrong I hope you make me aware of it. Thanks for the feedback. I'd give a lot to beam one or two of you to my place to have a chance of discussing this face-to-face.
On 22.09.2005 09:07:40 Manuel Mall wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:36 pm, Apache Wiki wrote: > > Dear Wiki user, > > > <snip/> > > > > = Borders and Padding = > > > > - Borders and paddings are generally replicated on each page when > > block-level FO spans more than a page. Nesting FOs can cause multiple > > such marks to appear at the beginning and at the end of a page. For > > each break possibility inside an FO and for breaks between FOs that > > are nested under a parent breaking such marks these border and > > padding widths may have to be taken into account when building the > > element list for the break possibility, depending on their order. The > > first non-conditional length (counted from the edge of the reference > > area) will cause subsequent conditional lengths to appear in every > > case. + Borders and paddings are generally replicated on each page > > when a block-level FO spans more than a page. Nesting FOs can cause > > multiple such marks to appear at the beginning and at the end of a > > page. For each break possibility inside an FO and for breaks between > > FOs that are nested under a parent breaking such marks, these border > > and padding widths may have to be taken into account when building > > the element list for the break possibility, depending on their order. > > (The first non-conditional length (counted from the edge of the > > reference area) will cause subsequent conditional lengths to appear > > in every case. ''This last sentence is probably wrong!'') > > > Jeremias, I was wondering about that myself when I read your page. My > understanding is that the question if a border/padding is drawn or not > is independent of any spaces "surrounding" it and what treatment they > receive. That is the decision if a border/padding is drawn depends > solely on its conditionality, and the respective "is-first" / "is-last" > traits on the area in question. > > And yes, there is space-start/end stuff in the inline LMs which is > broken but I would suggest to leave that until the space handling in > bpd is sorted out. > > Manuel Jeremias Maerki
