Karen Lease wrote at 20 Aug 2002 23:07:46 +0200: > That would be good. I haven't looked at it for a month or so, but I had > (as usual) some questions about various statements in the XSL-FO spec > concerning the interpretation of the various properties. Perhaps we > could go over those issues at some point. ... > Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... > >>With regard to the line-height calculations, is anybody in the group > >>interested in getting into the gory details of the baseline stuff for > >>different scripts? I spent some time poring over the spec and trying to > >>get a handle on this, but maybe it's too much detail for now. On the > >>other hand, I'd really like to make sure that this version of FOP > >>handles that stuff correctly as well as being able to do the various > >>kinds of line-stacking strategies defined by the XSL-FO spec. > >> > > > > I am definitely interested. I have put some thought into these things > > already. Granted, when I implement it'll be a different codebase but I am > > happy to work out the details on this list.
You may be interested in Steve Zilles's statement in the abstract [1] for his talk at next month's Unicode Conference where he says: The extended CSS/XSL model is based on the Open Type font model. This model posits a set of alignment baselines for different scripts, e.g., alphabetic, ideographic and hanging scripts. This allows characters in a given script, but presented in different font sizes, to be aligned on the baseline natural to that script. I just looked in the XSL Recommendation, and Section 7.8.1 notes: XSL uses an abstract model of a font. This model is described in this section and is based on current font technology as exemplified by the OpenType specification [OpenType]. Maybe you also need to look at the OpenType spec. Regards, Tony Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XML Technology Center - Dublin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd Phone: +353 1 8199708 Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3 x(70)19708 [1] http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc22/a365.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
