Re: Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-26 Thread Arnd Beißner
Peter, thanks for the answer. I have always *assumed* that column balancing is implied whenever top-level block children of a flow have different span attributes, because it's the only approach that makes sense. If your second scenario were intended, then the 'span=all' block could not

Re: Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-26 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: Arnd Beißner [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip/ Since the default behaviour really seems to be unspecified, and since there's no property to specify it, I believe overall less harm is done if you don't balance at the end of the flow. This is because then you can always trick the renderer into

Re: Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-26 Thread Peter B. West
Arnd Beißner wrote: Peter, thanks for the answer. I have always *assumed* that column balancing is implied whenever top-level block children of a flow have different span attributes, because it's the only approach that makes sense. If your second scenario were intended, then the 'span=all'

Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-25 Thread Arnd Beißner
Hi, I just decided that I can't figure out what - according to the standard - should exactly happen if you have multiple columns in your body region and mix top-level fo:blocks of span=all with others of span=1. Perhaps one of you already found something... I can see how the

Re: Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-25 Thread Peter B. West
Arnd Beißner wrote: Hi, I just decided that I can't figure out what - according to the standard - should exactly happen if you have multiple columns in your body region and mix top-level fo:blocks of span=all with others of span=1. Perhaps one of you already found something... I can see how

Re: Spec drives me crazy: column-count and blocks with mixed spans

2003-06-25 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: Arnd Beißner wrote: ... Scenarios: (always column-count=3) Scenario 1 (just blocks with span=all): ABC ABC ABC ok, no problems. Scenario 2 (block with span=all, then blocks with span=1) AAA BCD BCD clear so far. Scenario 3 (blocks with span=1, THEN 1 block with span=all