fo:border vs draw:stroke

[Regina Henschel <regina.henschel@libreoffice.org>]

Hi all,

a <draw:frame> element gets its style from graphic properties and these 
have both fo:border and draw:stroke. But I do not find how they interact.

MS Office allows in its own format a combination of e.g. "square dotted" 
with "double". If MS Office writes ODF, then it reduces it in case of 
PowerPoint to draw:stroke with "dotted" and in case of Word to fo:border 
with "double". Restricting it to one kind depending on kind of document 
is no solution for LibreOffice, because LibreOffice uses both 
<draw:frame> with fo:border and <draw:frame> with draw:stroke in text 
documents. Currently LibreOffice does not combine fo:border and draw:stroke.

Some of further problems:

The thickness and the color of the lines are included in the fo:border 
attribute, but might be given as svg:stroke-width and svg:stroke-color 
in addition.

fo:border has no means to describe corners, but that is possible via 
draw:stroke-linejoin.

fo:border has no means to describe line ends, but that is possible via 
svg:stroke-linecap.



So my question is, what do we expect as result, if fo:border and 
draw:stroke or its associated attributes are given together for a 
<draw:frame> element?

Kind regards
Regina