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correction: How would you create a first line indent where multi-line
content flows under the bullet?

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RenderX.  I'm familiar with list-blocks.  How would you create a first
> line indent where multi-line content flows under the block?
>
> The reason for my approach:
> The common fo object in use in the document are fo:blocks with lots of
> text in them that flow over several lines, and based on the existing
> functionality of the templates and structure of the xml source it was
> easiest to drop an inline block container with the bullet.
>
> Karl..
>
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> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> Is there a reason why you aren't using fo:list and its descendants,
>> fo:list-item and the rest? They are designed specifically to address these
>> requirements.
>>
>> About why you are seeing what you are seeing, I will guess that while your
>> second case happens to be "correct", this is more or less an accident. You
>> have an em of space more in the first line, and with the space between the
>> fo:inline elements, you happen to have an em's width of content before the
>> second one starts. (With your bullet sized thus-and-so, etc.) Remember
that
>> inside fo:block, white space is munged but not thrown away (other things
>> being equal).
>>
>> List structures are designed to be much more robust, and they are.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wendell
>>
>>
>> On 4/6/2012 5:07 PM, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to understand and solve an issue I am having with
>>> text-indent and start-indent properties in FO.  This is a solution for
>>> a rounded bullet using fo:inline elements.  I'm assuming that if I
>>> start-indent 1em, and text-indent -1em that I will end up with a
>>> perfect hanging indent as long as I add the correct amount of space
>>> for my known and fixed size bullet character.
>>>
>>> So I have 2 blocks where the first block content is collapsed and the
>>> 2nd is indented (the source that is).  They produce 2 different
>>> results where the 2nd block result is desirable.  So which is the most
>>> correct and can't I achieve the same result by setting
>>> white-space-treatment (and similar) properties to my fo:inlines and
>>> containing fo:blocks?
>>>
>>> Here's my sample fo:  http://pastie.org/pastes/3741315
>>>
>>> Oh, the red dashed line is the represents the desired indent.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Karl Stubsjoen
>>
>>
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