At 11:14 2003 03 19 +0000, David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Says,
>
>This property specifies spacing behavior between text characters.
>
>Question.
>
>If applied to an fo:character element, which space(s) does it impact?
>All successive ones? Just the following character (presuming a sequence
>of more than one)?
> Is any of this within the rec itself please?
The discussion at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#letter-spacing
explains how letter-spacing affects the space-start and
space-end traits of the fo:character.
What the spec doesn't make clear in section 7.16.2 (and which,
in fact, is further confused by the CSS's misleading "Applies
to All elements" statement) is that letter-spacing applies
only to the fo:character, fo:leader, and fo:page-number FOs
(as you discover if you search through the various FO descriptions
for applicable properties).
On any other FO, the value of letter-spacing is merely inherited
by the enclosed fo:character's (and leaders and page-numbers).
So to affect the letter-spacing on, say, an entire title, you
should put the letter-spacing property on the fo:block (or
whatever) that the title maps into, and this will be inherited
by the enclosed fo:characters.
paul
p.s. Of course, not all processors support letter-spacing.
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