Interesting. According to the spec the "height" attribute doesn't apply
to the fo:block FO. Specifying should not have any effect. Furthermore,
height is a simple property (derived from CSS) and does not support
subproperties like "minimum". If "minimum" (or a <length-range> for that
matter) is to be used, you'd have to use the
"block-progression-dimension" property (which doesn't apply to fo:block,
either). So, if DocBook does that, it's non-standard and will not have
any effect on most FO implementations. fo:block-container is the next
best FO that supports block-progression-dimension.

I don't think there is any feature exactly like you want. The only thing
I see you can do is have a keep-with-next on the section title and a
keep-together on the first paragraph after a section title. Furthermore,
settings widows and orphans right should also help.

On 12.12.2005 00:26:28 gerhard oettl wrote:
> 
> Not fop-specific.
> 
> Is there a way in xsl to specify:
> If there is less space than x inch free on the current page don't
> begin a new aerea - make a page-break instead and continue on the
> new page.
> 
> For latex-users: I am looking for something like the "needspace"
> package.
> 
> The goal is to avoid the beginning of a section within the last x
> inches of a page.
> 
> 
> I discovered how docbook handle this at
> <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html>
> but i wonder if there isn't a better solution like
> <fo:block height.minimum="5cm">xxx</fo:block>
> 
> 
> Any tips are wellcome.



Jeremias Maerki


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