[xep-support] Strange Behavior For Start-Before with fo:list

[W. Eliot Kimber]

David Tolpin wrote:
>>If I understand the meaning of "fence before", it means that the space 
>>before for the initial blocks within a list item should have conditional 
> 
> 
> list-items are not reference-areas. They do not impose a condition
> that causes suppression of space-before/space-after. The fence means
> that adjacent space-before/space-after do not interact with each other.

You seem to be correct--if your interpretation of "fence" is correct, 
then I have to agree with your implementation. However, if "fence" also 
implies the same behavior *as if* the fence was the edge of a reference 
area, then I would not agree. But I can't find anything that defines the 
meaning of fence in any other way than as you have interpreted it--it 
doesn't appear to be a completely well-defined notion in the FO spec, 
only being defined in the context of explaining the block stacking rules.

Hmph.

Cheers,

E.
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W. Eliot Kimber, eliot at isogen.com
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