Re: svn commit: r1151195 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk: src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/truetype/TTFSubSetFile.java status.xml

2011-07-28 Thread Peter B. West
See below Peter West How can these things be? On 28/07/2011, at 9:59 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: On 27/07/11 13:39, Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 27.07.2011 12:09:58 Vincent Hennebert wrote: So we're back to nitpicking. Oh, absolutely not! I actually find it very worrying that you

Re: 20x slowdown in PNG processing when switching from JDK 1.6.0_17 to 1.6.0_18

2011-05-04 Thread Peter B. West
I suppose you have JAI installed in both 6u17 and 6u18/24? Peter West Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen. On 04/05/2011, at 8:17 PM, Ognjen Blagojevic wrote: Hi, To keep issue alive, I reported a bug:

Re: 20x slowdown in PNG processing when switching from JDK 1.6.0_17 to 1.6.0_18

2011-05-04 Thread Peter B. West
Ognjen, You may well have it, depending on where you got your Java installation. I see you're on windows, so it's probably already included. With linux, I used to have to install it myself, but I've been using OS X for a while now, so I don't know about either Windows or linux any more. The

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 50240] New: [PATCH] Upgrade to Java 1.5 - Converted EncodingMode to an Enum

2010-11-09 Thread Peter B. West
You may find some of the code in the now-stagnant SourceForge Folio project useful. It has lots of enums defined, for example. It is MPL, but just let me know and I'll change the licence. Peter West He said to them, Come and see. On 10/11/2010, at 2:35 AM, bugzi...@apache.org wrote:

Re: svn commit: r946585 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/afp/fonts: AFPFont.java AbstractOutlineFont.java CharacterSet.java CharacterSetBuilder.java CharacterSetOrientation.java D

2010-05-21 Thread Peter B. West
I'm puzzled by this discussion. AFAIK, Java has rejected moving to 32 bits in Java 5. Instead, they are supporting supplementary characters. There's a discussion here: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/Supplementary/ Peter West Lord, to whom shall we go? On 21/05/2010,

Re: svn commit: r946585 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/afp/fonts: AFPFont.java AbstractOutlineFont.java CharacterSet.java CharacterSetBuilder.java CharacterSetOrientation.java Dou

2010-05-21 Thread Peter B. West
interfaces as noted above that need to be upgraded as well. if you like, I can fold this into my present work, or assign it a new bug number (which may be the best for tracking purposes); regards, glenn On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Peter B. West li...@pbw.id.au wrote: I'm puzzled

Re: Initial Values of Variables [was: Re: svn commit: r825875 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/cli: CommandLineOptions.java InputHandler.java]

2009-10-20 Thread Peter B. West
Yep, they sure are. Does it hurt to spell it out? Like redundant parentheses, it does no harm, and makes the code just that little bit more explicit, for the dodos like me. Peter On 20/10/2009, at 8:13 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi, Just a nit: +private boolean useCatalogResolver

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-23 Thread Peter B. West
On 23/09/2009, at 8:18 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Tony, Tony Graham wrote: On Mon, Sep 21 2009 23:30:17 +0100, jonathan.levin...@intersystems.com wrote: ... If inherit is allowed to be a value then the grammar truly becomes ambiguous since each of these can have the value inherit

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Peter B. West
On 23/09/2009, at 12:13 AM, Jonathan Levinson wrote: Hi Vincent, You make excellent points, however for font-style, font-variant and font-weight the initial value (the default value) is normal, not inherit. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-style

Re: Moving to Java 1.5, retroweaving for 1.4

2009-09-03 Thread Peter B. West
On 03/09/2009, at 6:51 PM, Max Berger wrote: Dear Fop Devs, Peter B. West schrieb: Java 6 is, as yet, and possibly indefinitely, unavailable for 32 bit machines. Apple's commitment to Java has slackened off considerably. Peter Just for the mail archives: Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6

Re: Moving to Java 1.5, retroweaving for 1.4

2009-08-24 Thread Peter B. West
On 24/08/2009, at 10:04 PM, Laurent Caillette wrote: Hi all, A few thoughts about Java 1.5 support and FOP version numbers. I suggest to keep the emblematic 1.0 for the full support of the XSLT-1.0 spec. I don't see any problem with FOP version hitting 0.99 or even 0.123 one day. Java

Re: Moving to Java 1.5, retroweaving for 1.4 (was: svn commit: r805561 [1/2]....)

2009-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
On 20/08/2009, at 7:41 PM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: There we go again. ;-) I can understand the wishes and cravings of the developers (feeling them myself), but as I've said before: such a decision should be made with the user community in the back, i.e. there should be another user survey to

Re: FOPIDESetupGuide updated to Netbeans 6.5

2009-01-22 Thread Peter B. West
Andreas Delmelle wrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 11:45, Peter B. West wrote: It might be a good idea to set svn:ignore properties on ant.jar and the offo jars in lib. Then you could tell interested parties to drop those jars into lib as part of the preparation for building, and it's unlikely

Re: FOPIDESetupGuide updated to Netbeans 6.5

2009-01-22 Thread Peter B. West
I was interested to read the procedure outlined, but I think there is a slightly easier way, using what NetBeans calls Free-Form Projects. When I get a bit of time, I'll put some detail son the wiki. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/folio.html

Re: FOPIDESetupGuide updated to Netbeans 6.5

2009-01-21 Thread Peter B. West
Andreas Delmelle wrote: On 19 Jan 2009, at 13:42, Ulrich Mayring wrote: Hi Ulrich Ulrich Mayring wrote: Peter B. West wrote: You must set up hyphenation from the OFFO site. http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/ Ok thanks, the build works now. Maybe the SetupGuide could be updated

Re: Configuring Netbeans - missing org.apache.fop.fonts

2009-01-19 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Well, using the CLASSPATH env variable begs for trouble. I consider it a mistake of Java 1.0 that has been carried on until today. Good thing you found the problem. BTW, Peter, are you aware that the Folio website reports an error? I wasn't aware of that, thanks.

Re: Configuring Netbeans - missing org.apache.fop.fonts

2009-01-18 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I have no idea what's going wrong. It seems to work for everyone else. In my log output with Ant 1.7 and the -d option I get different log output. For example, Ant includes the full classpath for the javac task in the resourcegen target which doesn't seem to happen on

Re: Configuring Netbeans - missing org.apache.fop.fonts

2009-01-17 Thread Peter B. West
classes in the build directory. I don't assume you've manipulated the basedir property because that would probably have led to problems earlier in the script. I'd run the Ant script with -d or -v to see what's going on. On 24.12.2008 01:36:08 Peter B. West wrote: Yes, I know. When I checkout I get

Re: Configuring Netbeans - missing org.apache.fop.fonts

2008-12-22 Thread Peter B. West
an import error for the following: import org.apache.fop.fonts.*; and import javax.media.* However, I am able to do a clean build in ant. How can I resolve these in netbeans? Thanks, Phil -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Memory Leak in PropertyCache: need ideas

2008-08-22 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Ok, here's the final patch I'd propose to fix the memory leak. I've seen no measurable performance degradation compared to the base revision and no multi-threading problems. The memory leak is fixed and the number of stale references remains low. Feedback welcome. What

Re: Memory Leak in PropertyCache: need ideas

2008-08-22 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: There's a lot of AND-ing of hash codes to determine the segments and buckets and that's much easier to handle if you have a power of 2 and can shift bits around. On 22.08.2008 16:22:05 Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Ok, here's the final patch I'd propose

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-16 Thread Peter B. West
straightforward. All the jars in lib and lib/build + the codegen classes. So something very odd is going on. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-16 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: Bones wrote: In the end, I got it working by making sure that the build process was using the exact same XML parser and XSLT processor that were distributed with FOP. - How do I do that with in ant? You're doing it. It's controlled by the classpath set up by ant

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-15 Thread Peter B. West
} build.gensrc.dir ${build.gensrc.dir}/echo immediately in front of line 352 to verify. It could be a mixed forward and backslashed path. Phil Peter B. West wrote: bonekrusher wrote: I will test this out later today on my home PC. I get a different set of errors on different machines. In the mean

Re: java.nio.CharBuffer

2008-07-15 Thread Peter B. West
, not the array itself. (Note that this obviously also has its drawbacks; sometimes, you just /need/ an independent copy...) Come 1.5, you get StringBuilder. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-14 Thread Peter B. West
into a badly formed file: URL within the ant task. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-13 Thread Peter B. West
in Windows? In linux, you execute which ant or type ant Can you do the equivalent on your system. Can you list the files and file sizes of lib and lib/build? -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-13 Thread Peter B. West
differences between 0.94 and trunk? -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: svn commit: r676161 - /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/events/model/EventModel.java

2008-07-12 Thread Peter B. West
, but not all URIs are URLs, I believe your example above is slightly incorrect. Jeremias Maerki It's a SystemId. The class includes setSystemId(...) and setPublicId(...), so a URL looks right. One way to find out. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: svn commit: r675698 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/cli: CommandLineOptions.java InputHandler.java Main.java

2008-07-11 Thread Peter B. West
I can recommend it. Max Berger wrote: Vincent, it may (or may not) make sense to move to commons-cli: http://commons.apache.org/cli/introduction.html which addresses this (and other problems) very well, but this would mean a lot more work. Max -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio

Re: svn commit: r670341 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/fo: FONode.java FOText.java FOTreeBuilder.java FObjMixed.java

2008-07-10 Thread Peter B. West
Andreas Delmelle wrote: On Jul 9, 2008, at 09:39, Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Am I the only one concerned about backwards-compatibility here? It's not my *concern*, but deliberately breaking compatibility does seem pretty silly. Yeah, so one night I thought: Let's see

Re: [OT] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-07-09 Thread Peter B. West
couldn't understand all of that xml. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Building FOP Trunk with Any - BUILD FAILED

2008-07-09 Thread Peter B. West
- which has always been challenging - just gets weirder and weirder. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40798] page-position=last doesn' t work for 1 page document

2008-07-08 Thread Peter B. West
) { return false; } else if (pagePosition == EN_LAST) { return false; } } else { if (pagePosition == EN_FIRST) { return false; } else if (pagePosition == EN_LAST) { return false; } } -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40798] page-position=last doesn' t work for 1 page document

2008-07-08 Thread Peter B. West
1.1's page-position=only. This attribute is not supported in XSL 1.0. I think they just went ahead and built the framework to support it, but it is not actually implemented yet. Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/08/08 6:23 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla

nbproject including global 'run' and single-file 'run' and 'debug' targets

2008-06-22 Thread Peter B. West
in project.xml. All targets depend on any necessary arguments being set as the properties arg0..arg9. arg0 must be set for the targets to execute. The other args are optional. I use these by setting the targets in build-local.properties, an example of which is also attached. -- Peter B. West

Re: nbproject including global 'run' and single-file 'run' and 'debug' targets

2008-06-22 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: For NetBeans 6.1. Attached is a gzipped nbproject directory including ide-targets.xml and ide-file-targets.xml. ide-targets.xml includes a 'run-nb' target for running a transform with an arbitrary set of arguments. This target is associated with the project 'run' menu

Re: PageAndLineBreaking/UnifiedApproach

2008-06-17 Thread Peter B. West
here? I haven't used Ruby myself, but it may be worth-while to check NetBeans. There is quite a lot of support for Ruby finding its way into NB. Check this page from the wiki. http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubyDebugging -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Code Quality Metrics

2008-06-11 Thread Peter B. West
people look at that often. Having those tools as IDE plug-ins is much more useful. But that needs to be set up by every dev him/herself. As Karen has been inactive for some time now, I can only assume that one of the developers wants a sex change. Who is it? -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Peter B. West
how many systems support the first and not the second. The decision for FOP should be based, not on the end-of-life for a particular version, but on the pragmatic reality of 1.5 vs 1.6 support. That's the second glass of wine for the evening. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http

Re: try without catch in BlockStackingLM.getNextKnuthElements

2008-05-31 Thread Peter B. West
of breakBeforeServed? -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: svn commit: r648381 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk: ./ src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/flow/table/ src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/ src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/inline/ src/java/org/apache/fop/layo

2008-04-19 Thread Peter B. West
active people here. Some hints would be great (on- or off-list). Please be frank. Thanks and my apologies for the ugly scene! Jeremias Maerki (whose boss is Jeremias and to a certain degree the XML Graphics PMC, but certainly not Vincent as an individual) -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 42616] - fop bash script still broken under cygwin when current dir has spaces

2007-10-30 Thread Peter B. West
Mark C. Allman wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try OLD_IFS=$IFS IFS= find ${FOP}/lib -name -name '*.jar'|while read jarfile do if [ -z $LOCALCLASSPATH ] ; then LOCALCLASSPATH=$jarfile else

Re: svn commit: r556112 - in /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop: fonts/truetype/TTFFile.java util/IntMap.java

2007-07-18 Thread Peter B. West
' commit, and I was surprised to not find it in the 1.4 standard library. A good thing it finally got added. Not a pattern. It's an object cache. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: IntMap.java

2007-07-18 Thread Peter B. West
people that FOP runs faster on JDK 1.5. J.Pietschmann FOP should run markedly faster on 1.6 without any changes. Just about everything else does. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Anyone heard from Andreas?

2007-06-18 Thread Peter B. West
I haven't seen anything from Andreas for some time now, and I was wondering if anyone had heard from him privately. -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: Generated source files? (Re: Small problem with Netbeans on fop-users@)

2007-03-10 Thread Peter B. West
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Mar 10, 2007, at 15:34, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Thomas Zastrow a écrit : snip / But I haven't a directory called gensrc? I downloaded the SVN-version just minutes ago. This directory contains source files automatically generated during the build process. To

ANN: HyFo hyphenation module V 1.0.0 released

2007-01-21 Thread Peter B. West
pages at http://defoe.sourceforge.net/hyfo/hyfo.html -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/

Re: FOP Memory issues (fwd from fop-users)

2007-01-09 Thread Peter B. West
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 16:52 +0100, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Richard a écrit : snip/ I'm also currently reading through Knuth's Digital Typography. Can anyone point out any sections I should pay particular attention to w.r.t. FOP's usage, (Digital Typography caught my eyes. I'll try to

Re: XSL-FO 2.0 workshop in Heidelberg next week

2006-10-10 Thread Peter B. West
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:42 +0200, Simon Pepping wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:45:08PM +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: If anyone has any requirements for XSL-FO 2.0 which I should bring up at the workshop in Heidelberg next week, please let me know. More radical

Re: keep...=always and Knuth penalties

2006-06-22 Thread Peter B. West
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:50 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Have you tried the Disposition of Comments? I don't know how accessible they are to Google. They are accessible through the list archive at W3C. I've looked at those I found but I found no listing of all XSL-related ones.

Re: keep...=always and Knuth penalties

2006-06-21 Thread Peter B. West
/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/2005AprJun/0028 On 21.06.2006 11:04:53 Peter B. West wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:07 +0200, Luca Furini wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 19.06.2006 15:45:36 Luca Furini wrote: It seems to me that the prescribed behaviour requires a keep

Re: keep...=always and Knuth penalties

2006-06-21 Thread Peter B. West
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:24 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 21.06.2006 16:19:30 Peter B. West wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:01 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Thanks, Peter. I went looking for that reference but wasn't lucky. I gave up after almost 30 minutes. Could you dig up

Re: PDFFontDescriptor and PDFFactory

2006-05-26 Thread Peter B. West
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:54 +0100, Chris Bowditch wrote: Peter B. West wrote: A colleague of mine has just found this: From PDFFontDescriptor */ public PDFFontDescriptor(String basefont, int ascent, int descent, int capHeight, int flags

PDFFontDescriptor and PDFFactory

2006-05-25 Thread Peter B. West
A colleague of mine has just found this: From PDFFontDescriptor */ public PDFFontDescriptor(String basefont, int ascent, int descent, int capHeight, int flags, PDFRectangle fontBBox, int italicAngle,

Re: Question about status of Bidi support, and Arabic/Persian shaping!

2006-05-05 Thread Peter B. West
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:43 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: This is good news. I did not study the problems around non-LTR texts so I can't say anything useful about this. I think it is preferrable to reuse code from the Java class library if it covers our requirements (among them: maintain

Re: Question about status of Bidi support, and Arabic/Persian shaping!

2006-05-05 Thread Peter B. West
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:59 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 05.05.2006 10:51:35 Peter B. West wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:43 +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: This is good news. I did not study the problems around non-LTR texts so I can't say anything useful about this. I think

FOPDEV.org

2006-01-13 Thread Peter B. West
Fop-devs, What have you been hiding? http://www.fopdev.org/ Peter smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Properties - was Sponsorship

2005-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: Finn Bock wrote: [Peter B. West] The alt-design property code was, back then, in my eyes, code written by a person who did not intuitively create object oriented design. ... It was, IMO, not a good fundation for further work. Fair enough, apart from

Thanks to Jeremias

2005-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias has sent a most magnanimous email to me. It reflects as well on him as my imputations as to his motives reflect badly on me. My apologies to Jeremias. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: script property

2005-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
CountryLanguageScript.java in the alt-design code for an attempt at this. Generated from xml-lang.xml and xml-lang.xsl. No baselines. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Sponsorship

2005-10-06 Thread Peter B. West
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:27:45AM +0100, Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 29.09.2005 11:58:57 Peter B. West wrote: I can understand that some sponsors may be sensitive to divulging such information, for at least two reasons. Firstly, the treat of being inundated

Re: Sponsorship

2005-10-06 Thread Peter B. West
Finn Bock wrote: [Peter B. West] ... That code was alt-design properties code. It seems to me that many of the ideas and implementation details of alt-design are now sitting in the FOP code base. This is true whether Finn ever looked at the alt-design properties code. It ain't over yet

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Manuel Mall wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:50 pm, Peter B. West wrote: Fopsters, I've always been somewhat sceptical of the new approach to page breaking, although I was prepared to concede that it would be a great achievement if you pulled it off. However, the closer the development has come

Re: Sponsorship

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 29.09.2005 11:58:57 Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias, I meant to ask you when you mentioned your sponsor; who is it? I'm not at liberty to disclose that at this point. I'm sure they're happy with the work you've put in. Yes, they are. We've already achieved one

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to the Wiki. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Luca Furini wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to the Wiki. Well, not entirely co-incidental! :-) I started writing the page some time ago, but never found the time to finish it: your message made me think I really couldn't put

Static methods

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
Finn, I noticed that you extracted numeric function methods as statics into a class of their own. Was this for aesthetic or performance reasons? Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Static methods

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
in NumericOp to avoid duplication of the few lines in each method. There was no performance reasons behind that decision. regards, finn Thanks Finn. I thought it might have been something you had learned about JVMs while working on Jython. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio

Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
, that some of the old hands have not raised this question already. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: alignment-adjust property

2005-09-28 Thread Peter B. West
are apprehensive about that, talk to me further off-list, or to Glen (who has communicated quite a lot with the editors, and who has popped up again) or Victor. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: inline stacking and baseline scaling

2005-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
. There have been no baseline-shifts (rescaling the font-table doesn't count as a baseline-shift.) Maybe. Still seriously confused Surely not. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: inline stacking and baseline scaling

2005-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
Manuel Mall wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:19 pm, Peter B. West wrote: Manuel Mall wrote: snip/ Peter, thanks for your feedback. I have deleted most of my original post to keep this to a reasonable size. Further comments inline. Just repeating my example here: fo:blockSome text

Re: More style issues

2005-09-09 Thread Peter B. West
prove the rule, don't they? :-) They certainly throw it into contrast. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 36379] New: - [PATCH] Revised percentage resolution system

2005-08-30 Thread Peter B. West
Manuel Mall wrote: PS: I can imagine Victor smiling now :-) : I told you so that not leaving all property resolution to the LM stage is going to cause trouble. Not just Victor, Manuel. But please press on re-discovering the wheel. Peter smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 36379] New: - [PATCH] Revised percentage resolution system

2005-08-30 Thread Peter B. West
! Perfect, in some imperfect sense of the word. Chris Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 36379] New: - [PATCH] Revised percentage resolution system

2005-08-30 Thread Peter B. West
Chris Bowditch wrote: Peter B. West wrote: snip/ Couldn't let that one go by, Chris. These issues, which were critical to the creation of both Folio and FOray, were being thrashed out around the beginning of 2003. You've been around long enough to know that, haven't you? So for more than

Re: StAX, JAXP 1.4

2005-08-23 Thread Peter B. West
Elliotte Harold wrote: Peter B. West wrote: But of course, I'm talking about Folio, which was built on a pull-parsing model before I had ever heard of pull-parsing, because it was the screamingly obvious thing to do. It gives me acute pleasure to see my original design decisions vindicated

Re: StAX, JAXP 1.4

2005-08-22 Thread Peter B. West
Elliotte Harold wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Fopsters, Some of you may be aware of the activity going on around StAX. Java 1.6 (Mustang) was to have included JAXP 1.4, but that looks to be on hold until Dolphin. However, StAX will be part of it, and soon enough, SAX will be a dim memory

Re: StAX, JAXP 1.4

2005-08-22 Thread Peter B. West
Elliotte Harold wrote: Peter B. West wrote: So I exaggerated. But how many better applications can you find me for StAX than processing XSL-FO? If StAX has no application here, it has no application. Is that what you're saying? You're asking the question backwards. We should

Re: Plain old line-breaking

2005-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
Luca Furini wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Is there any design documentation about plain old line Knuth breaking, as implemented by Luca? I see lots of stuff in the Wiki about page breaking, but can't see the original. As Jeremias told, there isn't much official documentation about

Re: Eclipse with JDK 1.5

2005-08-19 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't do native JDK 1.5 development (i.e. no generics etc.) but regularly compile and test with 1.5 and so far absolutely no problems. On 17.08.2005 19:31:14 Peter B. West wrote: How's Eclipse with 1.5 nowadays? Thanks. When I tried it ( a while ago now

Re: Plain old line-breaking

2005-08-19 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I can't talk for Luca, but I don't think we have explicit design docs for that part. I think there is some useful content in the mail archives (search for Knuth). Other than that, I realized that the algorithm described in Knuth's Digital Typography is now in our codebase

Plain old line-breaking

2005-08-18 Thread Peter B. West
Fop-devs, Is there any design documentation about plain old line Knuth breaking, as implemented by Luca? I see lots of stuff in the Wiki about page breaking, but can't see the original. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ --- [This E-mail has

Re: [NOTICE] Apache FOP moved from CVS to Subversion (SVN)

2005-06-25 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 25.06.2005 01:34:43 Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hi Peter On 24.06.2005 04:19:33 Peter B. West wrote: Subversion is no unknown quantity anymore, well maybe on NetBeans. It just takes some time until it gains a better foothold. Nub of the problem. I

Re: OT: Moving to UK? (RE: Foray's font subsystem for Fop)

2005-06-15 Thread Peter B. West
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, ..., and Jenni and I are moving to the UK for 12 months at the end of June, ... Well, if you have plans to cross the channel and visit Belgium during those 12 months, be sure

Re: OT: Moving to UK? (RE: Foray's font subsystem for Fop)

2005-06-15 Thread Peter B. West
will. There are a few of you in the area whom I will contact when we pass through. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/ - the atTridged version

Re: Foray's font subsystem for Fop

2005-06-14 Thread Peter B. West
. This is essentially what I tried to do from within FOP. It failed miserably. I cannot afford to make that mistake again. More to come later by way of answer to your other emails. I have an interest in the future of FOray-Font, so my preference is shared with Victor. Peter -- Peter B. West http

Re: Foray's font subsystem for Fop

2005-06-14 Thread Peter B. West
implementations when they are separated in the XML Graphics Commons area. :-) I certainly hope so. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/ - The atTridged version

Re: Foray's font subsystem for Fop

2005-06-14 Thread Peter B. West
. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/ - the atTridged version

Re: Foray's font subsystem for Fop

2005-06-14 Thread Peter B. West
an opinion, and the individuals have real alternatives on how to proceed after disagreements. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/ - the atTridged version

Re: [VOTE] Merge Knuth branch back into HEAD

2005-05-10 Thread Peter B. West
resolved. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/

Re: Applying Finn Bock's patch (again) :-)

2005-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
and Plass in Software - Practice and Experience 11 (1981), 1119-1184. Anyone who is interested may be able to obtain a copy of the ogiginal paper more cheaply than the book. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/

Re: Collapsing border model

2005-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: PS: Can someone please beat me? Stick, riding crop, whip, rope, chain or plain old bare knuckles? Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/

Re: [VOTE] Batik and FOP to migrate from CVS to Subversion

2005-03-22 Thread Peter B. West
for distributed development. This is actually a serious, though futile, suggestion. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ http://folio.bkbits.net/