[xep-support] overflow properly as "hidden"

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2004-10-21 15:57 -0500, Chen, Cindy \(C\)\(STP\) wrote:
>According to XEP4.0 reference guide, "overflow" property is supported with 
>following limitations:
>"Supported on absolutely positioned elements with fixed dimensions, and 
>regions that host static content.

That seems pretty explicit as to where overflow= is supported.

>What I would like to achieve is to allow text to be truncated if the text 
>overflows the reference area. So I defined block-container as:
>             <fo:block-container inline-progression-dimension="2in" 
> overflow="hidden">

Your overflow= is not being specified on either an absolutely-positioned 
block-container or on a perimeter region specification.

Note that setting the inline-progression-dimension sets a new wrapping 
length for the line, so text naturally wraps at the end of the 
inline-progression-dimension.  I believe you cannot ask XSL-FO 1.0 to 
truncate at the *end* of a line, only at the after-edge of the area of a 
given length.

Did you mean to say block-progression-dimension?  Even so, you have yet to 
specify the kind of area documented to support the overflow= property, so I 
would not expect your snippet to work.

I hope this helps.

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


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