11.6 The character object

11.6 The character object

Purpose

• This is both an abstract formatting object implied by a single text character in an XSL-FO instance and the concrete formatting object available to be used in place of a simple character.

Content

• ( 6.6.3 ) EMPTY .

Property sets

• Common aural properties ( 7.6 ; 327),

• common border, padding, and background properties ( 7.7 ; 328),

• common font properties ( 7.8 ; 331),

• common hyphenation properties ( 7.9 ; 332),

• common margin properties inline ( 7.11 ; 333),

• common relative position properties ( 7.12 ; 333).

Other required property

• character ( 7.16.1 ; 368).

Other optional properties

• alignment-adjust ( 7.13.1 ; 346),

• alignment-baseline ( 7.13.2 ; 346),

• baseline-shift ( 7.13.3 ; 351),

• color ( 7.17.1 ; 369),

• dominant-baseline ( 7.13.5 ; 374),

• glyph-orientation-horizontal ( 7.27.2 ; 381),

• glyph-orientation-vertical ( 7.27.3 ; 381),

• id ( 7.28.2 ; 384),

• keep-with- next ( 7.19.4 ; 386),

• keep-with-previous ( 7.19.5 ; 387),

• letter-spacing ( 7.16.2 ; 389),

• line-height ( 7.15.4 ; 390),

• score-spaces ( 7.28.6 ; 412),

• suppress-at-line-break ( 7.16.3 ; 418),

• text-altitude ( 7.27.4 ; 421),

• text-decoration ( 7.16.4 ; 422),

• text-depth ( 7.27.5 ; 422),

• text-shadow ( 7.16.5 ; 423),

• text-transform ( 7.16.6 ; 423),

• treat-as-word-space ( 7.16.7 ; 424),

• visibility ( 7.28.8 ; 425),

• word-spacing ( 7.16.8 ; 428).

Shorthands influencing the above properties

• font ( 7.29.13 ; 377),

• page-break-after ( 7.29.16 ; 401),

• page-break-before ( 7.29.17 ; 401),

• vertical-align ( 7.29.22 ; 424).