Hi Keiron, Looking forward to your commit. So then "all we have to do" is make the FO + layout managers create the new Areas. I have gone back into design mode and have lots of pieces of paper covered with pseudocode and diagrams, concerning area creation. It's a lot longer to put the diagrams into UML though... Maybe easier just to try writing some code. I was thinking of the minimal set to start with: PageSequence, Block, Text. If we get the basics of inline layout right: line-breaking, line-stacking, it will give us a solid basis for adding the rest of the inline objects.
Karen Keiron Liddle wrote: > > On 2001.10.19 23:48 Karen Lease wrote: > > Hi Keiron, > > > > I've been a bit submerged this week and didn't respond to your and > > Arved's posts when they went by. > > > > I think tables now have enough functionality to satisfy most users. But > > thinking about how to do the "auto" layout got me back into pondering > > about inline area layout. > > > > Where and how are you planning to start on your changes? Is there some > > way I can collaborate by working on inline stuff or is that what you are > > working on? (which would be logical I suppose). > > > > Regards, > > Karen > > Hi Karen, > > How about I commit the stuff soon. As suggested by Arved, create a branch > for current code maintainence and do everything in the main branch. > All I have really done so far is to create a set of area tree classes (in > package org.apache.fop.area) and changed the renderers to use the new > classes. The renderers are currently almost empty of code, I wanted to > start from the top. > The rest of fop is left as is. It will still create the old area tree but > of course the renderers are not connected so you will get no output. > The new area tree attempts to be what the spec says with the minimal amount > of information and classes (I would still like to make it smaller though). > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
