On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:17 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I read it like this: The areas generated by inlines are always > children of line areas. Since only line areas can define the > before-edge and after edge baselines, areas generated by inlines have > to retrieve these two baselines from their parent line area. I > believe this is some kind of implied inheritance. Disclaimer: I > haven't studied the whole topic! > Jeremias, this doesn't quite gel with me as I don't think inheritance can be involved. alignment-adjust is about answering the question: Where is my alignment-point within the area(s) I am generating.
This question cannot (IMO) be answered relative to inherited baseline tables (some of those inherited baselines may even be well outside of the area the fo in question is generating). > On 28.09.2005 06:11:40 Manuel Mall wrote: > > This is another of those spec interpretation questions. Sorry to > > populate this list with so many of these questions but this is a > > source of real irritation for me in the moment. I just want to get > > sub/superscripts working and do it properly and I am hitting all > > these "murky" (as Peter put it) things in the spec. > > > > Here we go again. In 7.13 the spec defines the various baselines. > > In that section it says: "There are, in addition, two computed > > baselines that are only defined for line areas." and then goes on > > about those two baselines being "before-edge" and "after-edge". > > > > We then come to 7.13.1 alignment-adjust and "before-edge" and > > "after-edge" are valid values. However, the alignment-adjust > > property applies only to inline fo's. And inline fo's don't > > generate line areas. As the alignment-adjust property applies to > > the area generated by the fo (not like the alignment-baseline > > property which applies to the parent area) none of the areas > > generated by the fo's in question will have those baselines > > defined. The text also implies that i-f-o and and e-g have the > > "after-edge" as their dominant baseline. For the "auto" setting we > > are allowed to use heuristics to determine where the baseline is > > but that option is not open to the other values. So, what's the > > point of having "before-edge", "after-edge" as allowed values if > > those baselines are guaranteed not to be defined (and even use them > > as default for e-g and i-f-o)? > > > > Manuel > > Jeremias Maerki Manuel
