Re: [xep-support] Vertical fill

I may be missing something, but couldn't you just use the space-after
attribute on the upper block?

Cheers,
Martin

At 11:51 AM 22/06/2005, you wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Thomas Schraitle wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I would like to position two blocks on a page in the following way:
>>+----------------+
>>| first block |
>>| |
>>| |
>>| |
>>| |
>>| second block |
>>+----------------+
>>In other words: I need a "vertical fill" between the first and the second
>>block. It is like \vfill in LaTeX. How can I do this in XSL-FO?
>
>Short of a proprietary extension, the closest you can get is to make the
>second block a footnote with no footnote region separator. Of course, that
>only works if you control the fact that "first block" starts the page and
>it is the only content within the main flow on that page.
>
>But there is no general vertical justification mechanism in XSL 1.0 or 1.1.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Eliot
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