Welcome! What I didn't tell you earlier today when you wrote to me was that Manuel Mall and I have already done most of that work during the last few days. There are still a few TODO items in the compliance document itself some of which Manuel already addressed by writing testcase. There are certainly a few other details left to be sorted out but I think we're almost fine. However, having test cases especially for certain properties (like baseline-shift and the whole whitespace-related set of properties) would be really good to have.
What I would like to suggest to you is that you set up FOP Trunk (from SVN) on your machine together with the latest Forrest release. Docs on doc management are here: http://xml.apache.org/fop/dev/doc.html When you're done with that familiarize yourself with the layout engine test cases in the test/layoutengine directory. The following Wiki page will help you understand who that stuff works: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowToCreateLayoutEngineTests About how to find out about the capabilities of FOP trunk is not quite straight-forward because we obviously don't have too much documentation, yet? :-) Source of information are the layout engine test cases, the source code and us developers. Don't hesitate to ask questions. We're glad to have people around us to help us. I assume you're already a FOP user, so if you have FO documents to run through FOP, please do that and help us identify problem points. Creating isolated, minimal test cases out of these problems is a big step towards documenting and fixing them. On 09.08.2005 16:57:52 Patrick Paul wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Patrick Paul and I just joined the fop-dev mailing list. > > As a first contribution to the project, I would like to extend the > compliance document to show 1.0dev capabilities and allow comparison > between 0.20.5 and 1.0dev. > > Afterwards I hope to extend the documentation in general. > > For now, I have the following question: where do I get the information > about the capabilities of FOP-1.0dev ? > > Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki
