[xep-support] Incorrect page margins when writing-mode="rl-tb"

[Bob Stayton]

Hi,
I don't think there was a response to this bug report.  Is this something 
that will be addressed?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs at sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill.net>
To: <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:43 AM
Subject: [xep-support] Incorrect page margins when writing-mode="rl-tb"


>I believe I have found a bug in XEP's interpretation of margin-left and
> margin-right on an fo:simple-page-master when the writing-mode="rl-tb".
>
> I attach two FO files that illustrate the problem:
>
> test-lr.fo  is an FO file with writing-mode="lr-tb" on the fo:root 
> element,
> and margin-left="1.5in" margin-right="0.5in" on the fo:simple-page-master
> with master-name="body-first"
>
> test-rl.fo is an FO file with writing-mode="rl-tb" on the fo:root element,
> and margin-left="0.5in" margin-right="1.5in" on the fo:simple-page-master
> with master-name="body-first"
>
> Note that the values of the left and right margins are swapped between the
> two files.
>
> I also attach the PDF outputs:
>
> xep-lr.pdf  shows the first page with a left margin of 1.5in and writing
> mode left-to-right
>
> xep-rl.pdf  shows the first page with a left margin of 1.5in and writing
> mode right-to-left
>
> Note that the margins are not swapped in the PDF outputs.
> I believe xep-rl.pdf should have a left margin of 0.5in, not 1.5in.  The
> XSL-FO spec section 5.3 says that when writing-mode is rl-tb then left 
> maps
> to end and right maps to start.  That is not the case in the PDF files I
> have attached.
>
> Is this a known problem?
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs at sagehill.net
>
> 

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