Re: [xsl] Breaking the flow?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 01/06/05 11:48 +0200, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
>The symptom is that the manager block appears at different places depending
>on how many items the agenda has. If there is just a few, the manager is
>near the middle of the page, and if there's plenty it may appear at a second
>page!
>
>What I want to do is to be able to relate the manager block to the bottom of
>the page instead of to the above block. Is this possible?

How about using an absolute or fixed positioned block-container object?

I've attached a three-page example below where the manager appears in the 
same position on each page regardless of the length of the flow.  I've set 
the top edge of the container to the same position on each page.  Note that 
I also used a single page page-sequence so that if the agenda flowed to the 
second page the rendering agent would report an overflow of the page-sequence.

I tested it using the evaluation RenderX (my environment adds the fo: 
namespace prefix as an intermediate step to running RenderX (a temporary 
RenderX situation; not required for other tools)).

I hope this helps.

.......................... Ken


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--gustaf.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
       font-family="Times" font-size="25pt">

<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"
       border="dotted"
       margin-top="13mm" margin-bottom="13mm"/>
   </simple-page-master>
   <page-sequence-master master-name="frame-one-page-only">
     <single-page-master-reference master-name="frame"/>
   </page-sequence-master>
</layout-master-set>

<page-sequence master-name="frame-one-page-only">
   <flow flow-name="frame-body" text-align="center">

     <block space-before="1cm">This is to certify:</block>

     <block font-style="italic" font-size="50pt"
            space-before="3cm">Gustaf</block>

     <block space-before="3cm"
            space-after="1cm">Has completed:</block>

     <block>Agenda 1</block>
     <block>Agenda 2</block>
     <block>Agenda 3</block>
     <block>Agenda 4</block>
     <block>Agenda 5</block>

     <block-container absolute-position="fixed"
                      top="220mm">
       <block>Manager:
         <inline font-style="italic">wife</inline>
       </block>
     </block-container>
   </flow>
</page-sequence>

<page-sequence master-name="frame-one-page-only">
   <flow flow-name="frame-body" text-align="center">

     <block space-before="1cm">This is to certify:</block>

     <block font-style="italic" font-size="50pt"
            space-before="3cm">Gustaf</block>

     <block space-before="3cm"
            space-after="1cm">Has completed:</block>

     <block>Agenda 1</block>
     <block>Agenda 2</block>

     <block-container absolute-position="fixed"
                      top="220mm">
       <block>Manager:
         <inline font-style="italic">wife</inline>
       </block>
     </block-container>
   </flow>
</page-sequence>

<page-sequence master-name="frame-one-page-only">
   <flow flow-name="frame-body" text-align="center">

     <block space-before="1cm">This is to certify:</block>

     <block font-style="italic" font-size="50pt"
            space-before="3cm">Gustaf</block>

     <block space-before="3cm"
            space-after="1cm">Has completed:</block>

     <block>Agenda 1</block>
     <block>Agenda 2</block>
     <block>Agenda 3</block>
     <block>Agenda 4</block>


     <block-container absolute-position="fixed"
                      top="220mm">
       <block>Manager:
         <inline font-style="italic">wife</inline>
       </block>
     </block-container>
   </flow>
</page-sequence>

</root>


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