Luca, thanks.
1. You confirmed what I suspected - LAST_AREA means "last area in that line"; so may be we should rename it to LAST_AREA_IN_LINE? 2. I need (nearly) exactly what Jeremias was referring to in your [1] - that is "an indication that the last area for a LM is being generated". In my case I am only interested in inline areas. However, it seems no solution has yet been found for this issue. I'll keep looking then. Manuel On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 06:46 pm, Luca Furini wrote: > Manuel Mall wrote: > > But if we have a long fo:inline stretching multiple lines this seem > > to give the wrong results from the Inline LM perspective. For > > example if the fo:inline finishes in the middle of a line followed > > by more text the Line LM will not set the LAST_AREA flag when > > calling addAreas on the Inline LM as there are more areas on the > > line. Therefore the Inline LM "thinks" its not done with yet > > although it is and the reverse is true on the first line of a > > multi-line inline. > > The LineLM.addAreas() method creates a line at a time (a line for > each LineBreakPosition), and asks its children to add their inline > areas for the line area being created. > > It sets the LAST_AREA flag if the child LM is the one that created > the last element placed in this line: for each line, there is one and > only one child LM that receives a LayoutContext with this flag set, > unless there are bugs :-) > > If the content of an inline is divided among several lines, the > method InlineLM.addAreas() will be called once per line, and all the > times (but the last) it will have the LAST_AREA flag on. > > Some time ago there was a thread about a similar subject [1]: the > problem, then, was the opposite, i.e. to find out which is the last > area generated by a LM, regardless of line breaks. > > I think there is a bit of ambiguity in the names: at the moment, the > LAST_AREA flag signals to a LM that it is adding the last inline area > in a line, or the last block area in a page, but this can cause > confusion with the is-last area trait described by the specs (4.2.2 > Common traits). Maybe we can find out a more significant and univocal > name. > > Regards > Luca > > [1] Markers: Determining the last generated area for a LM, > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=63&msgNo=11296
