[xep-support] space-before attribute

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2004-04-13 11:02 -0500, Chen, Cindy (C)(STP) wrote:
>I just experienced a weird behaviour when I tried to define a space-before 
>attribute for a block which is placed inside a table cell.

Note that a table cell generates a reference area and the default for space 
before and after at the beginning and end of a reference area is to discard 
the space.

>My code is attached. Basiclly I defined a block inside the table cell with 
>"space-before" set as 10pt.

But it is being discarded as required in the spec.

> From generated PDF, I wasn't able to see the spaces between the table 
> border and the text( it looks like space-after worked fine). But if I 
> changed the table cell on line 21 to:
>                             <fo:table-cell border-style="solid">
>I was able to see the spaces.

That seems strange ... I would not have expected that.

>Am I missing anything?

You are missing:  space-before.conditionality="retain"

By adding this property's compound value setting, the processor will not 
discard the associated space-before.  I added it to your example, as well 
as space-after.conditionality="retain", and the text ended up centred in 
the bordered table.

I hope this helps.

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

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