Indenting first paragraph

Dear All,

#2 in https://www.w3.org/community/ppl/wiki/CustomerRequirements

Is there any discussion about this feature in archives?

For me this request is rather surprising. 

AFAIK indenting at the beginning of the page/column is allowed according to
common typographic rules. To see it in the output I'd personally take it as
a bug.

But it is true when indenting is enabled, there are some rules when the
first paragraph should not be indented:
- after headings
- after page-wide tables
- after floating images
- [lists?]

I like ConTeXt way, where these rules are not defined on the specific
'block', but on the previous one using a special 'attribute'
indentnext="yes/no":
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Indentation

It would be nice to have something like this also in XSL-FO. In XSLT
transformation it is much easier to set a single attribute value
(indentnext=no) to all those headings, wide tables etc. instead of testing
what the previous node is and according to this information to switch the
indentation for the given block on/off.

But this is most likely unrelated to the original topic... :-)

Regards, Jan

Received on Wednesday, 5 March 2014 21:25:03 UTC