Re: [docbook-apps] Specifying space-before relative to the page margins

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

In XSL-FO, there are properties you can put on a fo:block-container to position it relative to the page boundaries rather than relative to its preceding block.  Something like:

 

<fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" top="3in">

  <fo:block>

  ...

 

This will place the top of the block-container 3in from the top of the page.

 

I think getting that work in the titlepage system might be hard.  The titlepage spec file can only specify one element, but here you need both block-container and block.  So the spec probably has to specify the name of a template, and the template must be written to output both elements.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

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From: Xmplar

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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:30 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Specifying space-before relative to the page margins

I have on a book title page several elements (title, subtitle, author, contributor, mediaobject etc) all centred below each other. For each element, I have set space-before values which are, of course, measured from the preceding element (so, the space-before for subtitle is applied relative to the position of the title).
Instead of specifying space-before for each element relative to the preceding element, is it possible to specify the space-before relative to the top margin of the page?

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Dave Gardiner