[xep-support] fo:inline-container

[Alexander Peshkov]

Hello Oliver,

OK, now I can see the point. You can achieve desired effect using side
floats as shown in the following code snippet:
...
  <fo:block clear="both">And this is the normal text flow of this page.</fo:block>
  <fo:float float="inside">
    <fo:block-container width="100pt" margin="0pt" padding="10pt">
      <fo:block text-align="start">This is text. This is text. This is text. </fo:block>
    </fo:block-container>
  </fo:float>
  <fo:block clear="both">And this is the normal text flow of this page.</fo:block>
  <fo:float float="inside">
    <fo:block-container width="100pt" margin="0pt" padding="10pt">
      <fo:block text-align="start">This is more text. This is more text. This is more text. </fo:block>
    </fo:block-container>
  </fo:float>
  <fo:block clear="both">And this is the normal text flow of this page.</fo:block>
...

Note that 'inside' and 'outside' values of 'float' property are
Renderx extensions to XSL FO spec.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
RenderX
  
OB> Hi Alexander,

>> We do not plan to support fo:inline-container in the next release.

OB> what a pity.

>> However your requirements are not quite clear to me. Why do you need
>> fo:inline-container? Text can be aligned to the 'inner' side with
>> use of simple fo:block. What do you mean by "blocks with different
>> widths"?

OB> Using one fo:block with text-align="inside" would produce this layout:

OB> +---------------------+  +---------------------+
OB> |  This is text. This |  | This is text. This  |
OB> |    is text. This is |  | is text. This is    |
OB> | text. This is text. |  | text. This is text. |
OB> +---------------------+  +---------------------+

OB> That means, the text flow will be aligned to the inner side.
OB> I want a block whose inner text align is left (start), but the block itself
OB> should be aligned inside:

OB> +----- page width ----+  +---------------------+
OB> |       This is more  |  | This is more        |
OB> |       text. This is |  | text. This is       |
OB> |       more text.    |  | more text.          |
OB> |                     |  |                     |
OB> | And this is the     |  |                     |
OB> | normal text flow of |  |                     |
OB> | this page.          |  |                     |
OB> +---------------------+  +---------------------+

OB> I hope you can see what I mean.

OB> Thanks,
OB> Oliver


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