Ok, I think I'd like to pursue 2 possibilities. If someone out there listening in on this discussion can give me a pointer to the ASCII layout engine and a pointer on how to teach it to increment to page length, then I will take a shot at implementing "bounding-in-one-dimension" in the maintainance branch at least.
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If some of the more experienced FOP developers agree with me that ASCII rendered output support would be a nice feature for the redesigned FOP, and it's feasible, then I'd like to contribute. Thoughts, suggestions? Thanks, -Vincent > ---------- > From: Jeremias Maerki[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ASCII text output and pagination > > > On 05.03.2003 16:53:15 Illiano, Vincent wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response. I am willing to add media-usage support > to > > FOP. I have a couple of questions on this, though. Given that I need > this > > functionality now, if I add it to the redesigned FOP branch, when will I > be > > able to use it? > > If the functionality available in the redesign already fits your needs > (check that please) you can start using it immediately. Just download it > from CVS as indicated on our website. > > > When will the first release of the redesiged FOP be > > available? > > Unknown. There's still a lot to do. But please do have a look at the > redesign. > > > If I decide to put the support in the maintainance branch > > because I need it now, would it be difficult to port it later to the new > > FOP? > > I think, yes. The reason is that the layout engine is completely > different. The renderers are still pretty similar, but your > functionality need to be implemented in the layout engine. > > > I guess we should also ask the question if there are other FOP users out > > there who would like to see ASCII support in the redesigned FOP. I, > > personally, have found it very useful! > > > > One more thing. I am not familiar with the layout engines. How > difficult > > will it be to "teach" it not to make page breaks and to increase the > page > > length dynamically? > > Hmm, I can't answer that off-hand. I'm the "peripheral guy" here, sort of, > read: > specialist for everything but layout. :-) I hope Keiron can answer that. > > If you need your functionality real quick, I suggest you go the > post-processing way. But it would certainly be cool to have new people > jump in and help. > > Jeremias Maerki > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
