Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-16 Thread Benoit Maisonny
Jeremias Maerki said: > For the example you showed below, you don't need fo:float. You can do that using fo:block-container: > > space-after="-1.2em"> >width="4.5mm">← > You're right in a block context, but this does not work in an inline context. inline-container does not remove its content

Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-15 Thread Jeremias Maerki
For the example you showed below, you don't need fo:float. You can do that using fo:block-container: ← On 13.08.2006 12:08:30 Benoit Maisonny wrote: > > Vincent Hennebert said: > > Dear Fop users, > > > > I'm currently thinking about the implementation of side-floats > > () into Fop. > > T

Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-14 Thread John Burgess
Vincent We currently produce software documentation with very wide margins and put the section headings in these margins. This currently requires a lot of fairly complicated work with tables. I could imagine side-floats being useful for simplifying this, providing that the side floats are a

Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-13 Thread Benoit Maisonny
Vincent Hennebert said: > Dear Fop users, > > I'm currently thinking about the implementation of side-floats > () into Fop. This is great news! Lack of side float support have actually prevented us from using FOP in our main XSL-FO application, for the last 4 years or so. > It turns out that the

Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-11 Thread J.Pietschmann
Vincent Hennebert wrote: - would you expect a side-float being placed on another page than its anchor? Would you prefer the whole chunk of text to be deferred on the following page? This should not happen unless two (or more) side flows anchored at the same line are stacked. I'm not sure whet

Re: [Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-11 Thread Glen Mazza
Vincent, in considering this, you may wish to also keep in mind: what do you see as the usage difference between side-floats and the xsl:region-start and xsl:region-end regions? I mention this, just to make sure that use cases actually intended for side regions do not move into side-floats, a

[Poll] Expectations regarding side-floats

2006-08-11 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Dear Fop users, I'm currently thinking about the implementation of side-floats () into Fop. It turns out that there is a choice to make between several design decisions which imply different behaviors regarding the placement of floats on the page. To help me make a decision, I'd like to know whi