Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 12.05.2005 22:00:54 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: snip/ I get carried away sometimes :-) Happens to me all the time. This stuff gets so complicated. snip/ I can see the potential benefit by not having to take all the influencing border sources into account, but precalculating some border

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 13.05.2005 18:01:44 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: snip/ if you would like to take a stab at the collapsed border resolution, then please do. I'll leave it aside for the moment and will concentrate on implementing or fixing the rest of the important features for table layout (BPD/height

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-11 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 11.05.2005 00:52:21 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: snip/ Jeremias, what do you mean with complexity in certain areas? Tables only, or are there other complexities that you perceived as overwhelming? No, it's mainly the complexity of the collapsed border model ... Yes, I've been

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-11 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I'm not where I would like to be, yet (with table layout). Over all, there is still a number of problems to be solved. These are (potentially incomplete list): - Table layout including header, footer, spans and borders (*) - Markers - before-floats and footnotes - keeps and

[VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I'm not where I would like to be, yet (with table layout). Over all, there is still a number of problems to be solved. These are (potentially incomplete list): - Table layout including header, footer, spans and borders (*) - Markers - before-floats and footnotes - keeps and breaks on tables -

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 10.05.2005 20:41:19 Simon Pepping wrote: My worry with the new approach is performance: We know that the algorithms require quite some computational steps, but we have no idea whether in the end performance on a large document will be acceptable or not. (Perhaps Luca has some experimental

RE: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10.05.2005 20:41:19 Simon Pepping wrote: Hi guys, For starters: my vote is +1. I agree with Simon, and also very much feel like we're on the right track with this. Sure, it will *still* take some work... snip /

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-10 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Still, we're at a point where we should finally say yes or no to further pursuing the new page breaking approach. Merging the branch back into HEAD means a step back for a few features and on the other side a step forward especially for keeps. I got the impression that the