Hi Viking,
Typing "CSS Margin shorthand" into google and clicking "I'm Feeling
Lucky" results in http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp
TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT
Friday, April 29, 2005, 11:24:07 AM, vikingway2deal@mycingular.blackberry.net wrote:
v> This is an emergency and I ama newbie to xslfo
v> What is in the shorthand notation for margin
v> -----Original Message-----
v> From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
v> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:06
v> To:xep-support@renderx.com
v> Subject: Re: [xep-support] How to prevent region-body from going into
v> region-after
v> At 2005-04-29 11:03 +0000, viking wrote:
>>This happens on some of the input xml files the generated PDF files have
>>the bottom of the body overlapping the region-after
v> The stylesheet writer is responsible for avoiding the overwrite of regions.
v> In some applications (like my UBL stylesheets), it is advantageous to
v> employ this overwrite ability.
>>How can control the margins in the
>>page, region-before, region-body and region-after.
v> You set them yourself.
v> Check page 73 of the freely downloadable excerpt of our XSL-FO book; follow
v> the link in my trailer below to the "Books & free excerpts" link on our
v> home page.
>>Current Settings
>>Simple-page-master
>> margin-right=".1cm"
>> margin-left=".1cm"
>> margin-bottom=".7cm"
>> margin-top=".1cm"
>>
>>What does region-body
>>Margin="1.5cm 1.5cm .1cm .1cm"/>
>>Mean?
v> Looking at page 73 you'll see how the body margins "push in" the body
v> within the page margins.
>>What does region-before
>>extent="0.8in"
>>padding="0in 0m4in 1pt"
>>mean?
v> The extent is how far the perimeter region extends from the page margins
v> into the body region ... without sufficient room, you will get overwrite.
v> The page margins constrain everything, the body margins constrain the body
v> region within the page margins, the perimeter extents constrain the size of
v> the perimeter as it reaches in towards the body.
>>What does region-after
>>extent="0.8in"
>>padding="0in 0m4in 1pt"
>>mean?
v> Same thing.
v> Note, however, that the XSL-FO 1.0 spec ignores padding for perimeter
v> region ... only the use of the extent= is defined in the spec.
v> I hope this helps.
v> . . . . . . Ken
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