Hmm, you're right. That should make things easier. BTW, I've got the raw algorithm together now to handle borders and tables and footers. Now I only have to deal with a few deals (mostly border stuff). After that I'm happy to call a vote for merging the branch back into HEAD.
On 09.05.2005 10:44:51 Luca Furini wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > So far I can only see the brute-force method (discarding element > > lists after the break and somehow backtrack while cleverly optimizing so > > as not to create too many discarded objects - still a non-trivial thing > > over all). > > Andrea's idea of "recycling" elements instead of replacing is very > interesting: I'm going to carefully look at all the examples in your wiki > page, and see if this could always be done or just in some lucky cases. > > Anyway: not all the elements after the break are made "invalid", but just > the ones referring to the same row group, so they would not be many. > > Regards > Luca > Jeremias Maerki
