Sounds very interesting. Would you consider sharing what you already have? This may help us in the general discussion and may be a good starting point.
My problem is that I have to deliver working page breaking with keeps, breaks, multi-column, adjustable spacing etc. in a relatively short period of time. On 04.03.2005 11:09:42 Luca Furini wrote: > > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > >Anyway, I'd like to ask if we could hold to a brainstorming conference > >call on page breaking either Sunday evening or next Monday or Tuesday > >somewhere between 8:00 and 24:00 CET. Of course, on my wish list there > >are Simon, Finn and Luca. I'm happy to call either of you on your normal > >phone via SkypeOut if you don't have broadband. I hope I can get at > >least one of you three on the line. > > I'v very interested in page breaking, and I would be happy to contribute. > > Unfortunately, I'm not much used to speaking english :-(, so I think I > would be much more comfortable with the idea of communicating via written > words! > > As I have said before (or maybe I forgot to ...) I have done a few > experiments trying to use Knuth's algorithm in page braking, and I have a > working implementation which handles only some block level formatting > objects (blocks and lists) and simplified documents (no footnotes or > floats, at the moment, and pages with equal length and width), but it has > some (I hope) interesting features: for example, it is able to adjust the > number of lines used for each paragraph in order to both fill the pages > and avoid orphans and widows. > In a few words, using the box - penalty - glue model it is possible to > represent paragraphs with an adjustable number of lines. > > I started working on it a few months ago, and I could not keep it updated > with all the changes, but if you are interested I could try and recreate > these features using the most recent code. Anyway, this could be done > after we have reached a basic implementation. > > Regards > Luca Jeremias Maerki
