Newbie: Vertical Lines in region start and region end

[gary cor <st...@hotmail.com>]

Hello All,

I have been trying to draw a thin vertical line down the Region-start and 
Region-end sections of the simple page master in FO.  I managed some boxes 
in these areas in FO which showed up in Antenna house but they would show 
up.  So what I want to know is, can I draw vertical lines? is it possible to 
use these regions in FOP? and how can I learn how to do that if its 
possible?

Many thanks for any help in advance

Cheers

G.

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Re: Newbie: Vertical Lines in region start and region end

[Josh Campbell <jo...@zype.co.nz>]

> I have been trying to draw a thin vertical line down the Region-start 
> and Region-end sections of the simple page master in FO.  I managed 
> some boxes in these areas in FO which showed up in Antenna house but 
> they would show up.  So what I want to know is, can I draw vertical 
> lines? is it possible to use these regions in FOP? and how can I learn 
> how to do that if its possible?

It's a mission to say the least. I managed to make up a border using 
these regions and fo:block with a line-height (the only way I've found 
to increase the height of a block). The only major issue was that the 
fo:block in the start and end regions needed something in them to 
actually display. I did a workaround using a lowercase 'l' (being the 
narrowest character I could find...possibly a '.' would be better) and 
making it the same colour as the background it appears on (which is a 
very sloppy workaround I'm sure but it works).

FO still has a long way to go before it's a useful design tool.

Anyway, here's my code:

<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
   <fo:block background-color="#000000"/>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
    <fo:block background-color="#000000"/>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-start">
    <fo:block color="#333333" background-color="#000000" 
line-height="27.7cm">l</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-end">
     <fo:block color="#ffffff" background-color="#000000" 
line-height="27.7cm">l</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>


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