<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If I'm not mistaken, <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">space-before.conditionality</span></font> and <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">space-after.conditionality</span></font> both default to "discard." And based on my understanding of fo:block-containers, those attributes should cause the space-before (and space-after) of the leading (and trailing) blocks within the container to be removed.<div><br></div><div>The attached FO demonstrates this case. I expect each line to appear separated by 1 inch. It works as expected between the first and second line, but there are two inches between the third and fourth line. Does that seem right?<br><div><br></div><div></div></div><span><spacing.fo></span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>FOLLOWUP: Here's the relevant paragraph from the XSL-FO 1.1 specification (<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/)">http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/)</a>:</div><div><br></div><div><i>If a conditional space-specifier ends a reference-area or line-area, then it is suppressed together with any other conditional space-specifiers which consecutively precede it in the sequence. For purposes of this rule, a space-specifier U consecutively precedes a space-specifier V if it U precedes V and U and V are separated in the sequence only by conditional space-specifiers and/or space-specifiers whose computed minimum, maximum, and optimum values are zero.</i></div><div><br></div><div>To me, that suggests the last space-after in a reference area (e.g. fo:block-container) should be suppressed. Or am I misunderstanding things?</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeff</div></body></html>