> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Williams
>
> I'm trying to achieve a page background with a border and a nice shade of
> grey, but for various reasons I need to do it inside of static objects in
> region-before.
>

Hmm. Using Apache FOP, incidentally?

> Is there any way of making the body text show through the block container
> whilst assigning a background colour.  I assume not, but thought it worth
> asking.

Never mind the question, I think you're going to be fine if you define the
background-color on the region(s) itself instead of the block-container.
Leave the borders where they are...

Should do the trick.

Hope this helps!


Cheers,

Andreas


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