On Friday 08 February 2002 01:58, Peter B. West wrote: > Bernard, (That's Bertrand by the way ;-)
> What sort of structure does rtf exhibit? Is it a page-based > structure, or is it divided, like xslfo, into page definitions and > flows? This is a critical difference as far as the design goes. > From what you say below, it seems to rely on a flow-based model. In the sense of not being mapped to printed pages directly (unless hard page-breaks are used), RTF is flow-based, not page-based. An RTF document is broken out in "sections" which are very similar to page-sequences in concept. The pagination is done by the RTF reader (usually a word processor) when it renders the document to screen or print. Constructs like tables, lists etc. are flow-based but need to be closed, kind of like the nested elements of an XML document. I think RTF maps well to XSL-FO documents in terms of structure. What has been hard in our past efforts to write an RTF renderer was that FOP didn't provide "end" events (or we didn't find out how it did) for tables, lists and other elements, for which the RTF render needs to generate "element-closing" codes. - Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
