Overconstraint alignment

• From: Manuel Mall <mm@arcus.com.au>
• Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:41:28 +0800
• To: xsl-editors@w3.org
• Message-ID: <DA18663F83382F41A8805A278252333673B5@kant.arcus.com.au>

Dear Editors,

With respect to line areas there can be conflicting or overconstraint
alignment specifications. I couldn't find a reference to that situation in
the specification. Example: 

<fo:block font-size="32pt">Big
  <fo:inline font-size=".25em"
      dominant-baseline="reset-size"
      alignment-baseline="before-edge">top
    <fo:inline font-size="2em">alpha
    </fo:inline>
  </fo:inline>
</fo:block>

Here we want "top" at the before-edge of the line area but the nested inline
"alpha" wants to be aligned at the alphabetic baseline of "top". Because
"alpha" uses a bigger font than "top" these two conditions cannot be
satisfied simultaneously. It is unclear to me how this is to be resolved. 

Thank you very much

Manuel Mall

Received on Friday, 21 October 2005 06:41:52 UTC