Joe Kesselman wrote:
> Hmmm. Conceptually, what you need to do is reserve an additional thin
> column, adjacent to (or contained within?) the margin, where the
> revision bar would appear.

Basically yes. If I could potentially create such a construct per page
say within a table. two columns; one for the actual margin and a thin
slice of the of the margin for the revision bar. This approach seems to
naturally offer proper alignment of the revision bar. The potential
problem is trying to somehow make the structure of the document match
the structure of what is contained within the column in question so
that my revision indicators can be aligned with the correct parts of
the document by "following" the content. To a certain extent, it seems
like it would be just about as much work as the other solution but down
a different path.

> I haven't done anywhere near enough XSL:FO hacking to know how
> unreasonable it would be to try to implement that way. I agree that it's
> the sort of thing which I'd prefer to have the page layout language
> assist me with.

I'm relatively new to XSL:FO also. I'd also prefer to see this
happening at the language level. The roads to solving the problem seem
a bit rocky :).

> There's always the solution of using a stylesheet to render into some
> other page markup language, such as LaTeX, which has better support for
> this particular function... but personally I'd rather see a solution
> that doesn't require leaving the XML world.

Thats unfortunately not an option for me either. I have to stay in the
XML world.

Regards
Jean-Francois Michaud