Re: [xep-support] Vertical alignment of inlinemediaobject

Thanks! I never thought I'd call a line of text with an inline image
beautiful, but it is!

On 21-Feb-08, at 7:35 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 2008-02-21 17:11 -0800, Peter Keung wrote:
>> I've tried all sorts of combinations of alignment-baseline,
>> alignment-adjust, baseline-shift, relative-align, vertical-align,
>> display-align, etc.
>
> Then I guess you didn't try the correct one! :{)}
>
>> What I want for inline image alignment is this, which seems to be
>> the default in FOP 0.24:
>>
>> +-+ Blahhhh, Blahhh, Blahhh, Blahhh, Blahhh,
>> | |
>> + +
>
> That is an incorrect default ... the default is that the base of
> the image sits on top of the text baseline.
>
>> In XEP, I get this:
>>
>> +-+
>> | |
>> +-+ Blahhhh, Blahhh, Blahhh, Blahhh, Blahhh,
>
> Yep!
>
>> Basically, I want the image to output from the top down, aligned
>> with the top of the text with XEP. Is this possible?
>
> Absolutely it is: in XSL-FO the alignment-adjust= specifies which
> point of the object is to be used for alignment, while the
> alignment-baseline= specifies the point of the line to which the
> object is aligned.
>
> So you want to align the before-edge of your image with the before-
> edge of the line. Seems to work fine in XEP.
>
> I hope the example below helps. Just plug in the name of your
> image in place of "star.gif".
>
> . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--align2.fo-->
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
> font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">
>
> <layout-master-set>
> <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
> page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
> margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
> margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
> <region-body region-name="frame-body"/>
> </simple-page-master>
> </layout-master-set>
>
> <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
> <flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/
> Format">
> <block>
> This is a test of image alignment; "Xy" is used
> to show the location of the top, baseline, and
> bottom of the character box.</block>
> <block>
> Default: image sits on baseline
> Xy<external-graphic src='url("star.gif")'/>yX
> </block>
> <block>
> Aligning the base to the bottom of the line:
> Xy<external-graphic src='url("star.gif")'
> alignment-baseline="after-edge"/>yX
> </block>
> <block>
> Aligning the top to the top of the line:
> Xy<external-graphic src='url("star.gif")'
> alignment-adjust="before-edge"
> alignment-baseline="before-edge"/>yX
> </block>
> <block>End of test</block>
> </flow>
> </page-sequence>
> </root>
>
>
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Received on Fri Feb 22 14:17:06 2008