+1 from me, especially since you'll document it properly and because it has the nice side-effect that we get to see more of your great work!
On 02.09.2005 09:35:41 Luca Furini wrote: > Speaking of extensions, I'd like to resurrect the layout extensions that > were part of the code used to start the Knuth branch, but I want to be > sure I'm allowed to do it. > > The set of extensions (a couple of new properties, and some new value for > an existing one) is aimed to give the user more control about the page > breaking: in particular, via these extensions it is possible to give the > application a list of properties that can be adjusted in order to fill all > the available bpd of a region (in addition / substitution to the spaces > between blocks [1]). > > I started writing a wiki page about these extensions on the wiki at > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/LayoutExtensions (I really should > take some time to finish it!). > > My highest-priority, short-term task is still to fix the behaviour of > page-number and page-number-citation, as I think these formatting object > must work in the next release: I have almost done, just have to finish > handling the case of justified ext. After that, obviously if there are no > objections against this, I'd like to spend some time on the extensions, > that I'm sure could come in handy for fop-users producing book-style (or > report-style) documents. > > For example, here is a link to a message in the xsl-editors mailing list > requesting a feature which is completely equivalent to one of the layout > extensions: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/2005JulSep/0007.html (many > thanks to Jeremias for pointing it out to me!). Should I be allowed to > keep working on this subject, I could answer him that fop will soon be > able to cope with his request. > > Regards > Luca > > [1] ... which makes me think that I should work on space resolution rules > too ... my to-do list keeps growing longer and longer! :-( You should see my TODO list! :-) Jeremias Maerki
