Thanks for that, I'll give it a go..
(c:

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:33, Thomas E Deweese wrote:
> >>>>> "AP" == Andrew Pietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> AP> I've now decided I need this.. )c: 
> 
> AP> I'm presuming the final implementation is still someway off, so is
> AP> there any change of adding it (since you feel its easy) or
> AP> pointing me in the right direction so I can implement it?
> 
>     I'll gadly point you in the right direction ;)
> 
>     All of text wrapping is done as a post-processing step in text
> layout.  That post-processing step has two parts, first it figures out
> what needs to be on each line, then it positions all the glyphs.
> 
>     All this work is done in the two methods:
> 
>     // Does the line break determination
>     batik.gvt.text.GlyphLayout.textWrapTextChunk(....)
> 
>     // Does the glyph positioning
>     batik.gvt.text.GlyphLayout.layoutChunk(....)
> 
>     As textWrapTextChunk does it's work it adde LineInfo object to a
> list, one for each line of text.
> 
>     What I would suggest is adding a vertical-align offset member to
> the LineInfo class.  This should be a Point2D.float.  Use the same
> Point2D.float for all lines in a single flowRect (the list of
> flowRects is accessed from the 'flowRectsIter').  When we hit the end
> of a flowRect (or of text), you can get the vertical size from 'dy'
> (depending on the case you will need to figure in the current line's
> size - search for 'bottomEdge') & the flow rect size from cRect.height
> from this you can calculate the 'left over' space and put half of it
> in the vertical-align Point2D's y value.
> 
>     Then in the layoutChunk method just add the vertical-align offset
> in when calculating the correct lineLoc for the current line.
> 
> ---
> 
>     You will also need to pass this information to the text-wrap stuff
> from the source SVG.  This is mostly done in the
> batik.extension.svg.SVGFlowTextElementBridge class. You might look at
> how the margin's are done (search for makeMarginInfo) or how the
> FlowRegions are handleded (search for getRegions).
> 
> ---
> 
>     Hope this helps, and good luck (if you get into it and have
> specific questions feel free to post).
> 
> AP> Thanks Andrew
> 
> AP> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 22:34, Thomas E Deweese wrote:
> >> >>>>> "AP" == Andrew Pietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> AP> Hi,I was wondering if the css vertical-align property is supported
> AP> (or planned) when using the flow text extension (i've tried a few
> AP> times and browsed the code so I'm guessing no).
> >>  No, and eventually :)
> >> 
> >> This is on hold pending decisions in the SVG WG.  The
> >> implementation was done to get experience to feed back to the SVG
> >> WG.  The WG is tring to sort out the details of how text wrapping
> >> will work - what features to support, what algs should be used,
> >> etc.
> >> 
> AP> I'm using the cvs version (week or so old).  I have a single flow
> AP> region and it would be nice (though not critical) to vertically
> AP> centre the text.
> >>  This wouldn't be hard to implement for this case (or actually even
> >> for multiple flow regions), but I haven't bothered since everything
> >> is about to change anyway.
> >> 
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