[xep-support] Inside/Outside Floats

[David Tolpin]

Hi Eliot,

and thank  you for the detailed samples. Has the fix I sent you a few 
hours ago worked?

> 1. The horizontal placement of floats differs from that produced by 
> XSL Formatter in that XSL Formatter only floats to the edge of the 
> parent block's effective edge based on that block's start or end 
> indent. XEP floats to the edge of the nearest ancestor reference area 
> (i.e., the edge of the region-body). I believe that XEP's behavior is 
> correct based on my reading of the spec. I have asked Antenna House to 
> defend their interpretation.

Yes, that's what is written in the recommendation, and the code manages 
a stack of reference areas to satisfy this.

> 2. When I specify space-before on the child block-container of 
> fo:float, XEP *always* renders the space, regardless of the 
> conditionality setting. However, I believe that conditional 
> space-before should be discarded in this case because side floats 
> establish new reference areas. XSL Formatter does discard the 
> conditional space in this case.

This is a bug, will be fixed. However, what you want is probably 
achieved by putting

float
	block-container space-after="0.5in" space-after.conditionality="retain"
		block
			Contents of the float go here.

This way, you get the floats separated and started as early as possible 
on the page.

David

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