- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:27:03 +0100
- To: gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com
- CC: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
> Just use <block/> as the equivalent of a <br>.
But isn't that the moral equivalent of using <p/> between (as opposed to
round) paragraphs in HTML (ie, it's immoral:-)
Yes it works (so long as the empty block doesn't have any unexpected
inherited properties) but isn't it architecturally more correct to have
<block text-align="center" ..blah.. ..blah... >
<block><external-graphic .....></block>
<block>Caption text goes here</block>
</block>
than
<block text-align="center" ..blah.. ..blah... >
<external-graphic .....>
<block/>
Caption text goes here
</block>
Especially in this case I'd say the caption really should be a block on
its own. The case where you want an inline br-like thing (or
equivalently a preserved #10) is where logically the stuff after the
line break isn't a new block but is part of the same run, for example if
you have a lot of technical words your system can't hyphenate and you
just want to give it a hand with the line breaking.
Of course the counter argument is that (unlike HTML) FO is just a
presentation format and so morals don't come in to it, if it looks right
then it is right.
David
pp Big Brother
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