Comments inline. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: May 1, 2002 2:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion > [ SNIP ] > Look at > > <basic-link>a paragraph of text <block>with a block</block> and more > text</basic-link> > > What about the restriction that a given area's children must all be of > the one type (4.2.1 Area Types)? Doesn't that oblige us to wrap the > block within an inline? Then that inline wrapper can sit in sequence > with the inline-areas 't', 'e', 'x', 't', ' ', as indeed the basic-link > inline-area already sits in sequence with 'S','o','m','e',' > ','t','e','x','t',' '? > > What's your take on this?
There were many discussions last year, as I recall, that espoused this viewpoint, that the area rules precluded a number of FO-level combinations and juxtapositions. This school of thought, and I belong(ed) to it, held that a block or inline contains either block FO children _or_ inline FO children, but not both. I am no longer convinced that this needs to be the case. It is certainly safe to ensure that all the children of a given FO are either block-level FOs _or_ inline-level FOs. In these cases we have area generation and layout which is (I think) well understood. But this treatment shows, I think, that the area rules can be satisfied without having to homogenize the type of FO children. 4.2.1 is a restriction on areas, as you know. Certainly the areas that I have diagrammed do not violate this constraint. > N.B. I have attached the SVG generated by Dia. I don't know what the > quality is like, but if the quality of the generated PNG is anything to > go by, probably not too good. If we can all get access to a reasonable > SVG vector editor that will write PNGs, we will be able to pass the > editable file around as well, which will greatly facilitate this sort of > discussion. Any candidates for a linux-enabled SVG editor? I'll have to take a look around. I happened to use Visio because it's on the machine and I'm familiar with it, plus it's a nice piece of gear. The most recent Visios do SVG, I believe, but I don't have a copy at home. We could use Postscript as well. Arved --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
