Hello Eliot,
I guess you are right. Probably we will re-consider treatment of
conditionality at the edges of span areas, but it's unlikely to happen
in the nearest versions of XEP.
Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
RenderX
EK> --- Alexander Peshkov <peshkov@renderx.com> wrote:
EK> Alexander Peshkov wrote:
>> Hello Paul,
>>
>> I believe that behavior you observe is the one
EK> prescribed by XSL-FO
>> specification.
>>
>> XSL-FO spec states that 'conditionality' controls
EK> whether a
>> space-specifier has effect at the beginning or end
EK> of a
>> reference-area.
EK> I think this analysis is incorrect in that I think
EK> column-spanning blocks do establish reference areas.
EK> If am reading the spec correctly, each block with
EK> span="all" in a multi-column flow creates a new "span
EK> reference area":
>>From 6.4.1.2. Page-masters"
>> For region-masters to which the column-count
EK> property applies, the main-reference-area
>> is further subdivided by having child-areas
EK> designated as "span-reference-areas" whose number
>> depends upon the number of spans (i.e. block-areas
EK> with span="all") occurring on the page. These in turn
>> are subdivided by having child-areas designated as
EK> "normal-flow-reference-areas", whose number depends
>> on the number of columns specified.
EK> I think this is pretty clearly establishing that each
EK> column-spanning block establishes a new span reference
EK> area.
EK> Cheers,
EK> Eliot
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