Hi Sergey, that certainly sounds better although I'm not sure I really understand why exactly you need to do these refinements. I assume that the TextRenderer will also work for most cases without the special AreaTreeHandler. I'm looking forward to having a look at your patch when it's ready.
On 23.09.2005 12:41:36 Sergey Simonchik wrote: > Hi Jeremias, > > We don't have in mind to change or modify any code in layout engine or code > of formatting objects itself. > It's just suggested to have our own handler which extends AreaTreeHandler. > This handler should do some refinement for txt (modifying tree of formatting > objects, for example changing font-size, etc). We emphasize that TxtHandler, > which extends AreaTreeHandler, is used only in txt case. > The method createFOEventHandler() return different FOEventHandler and in > case of txt output it should return TxtHandler. > > Good luck. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:11 PM > > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > Cc: 'Danila Ermakov' > > Subject: Re: txt-rendering > > > > Hi Sergey, > > > > would you please elaborate the modifications you suggest? I'd be very > > unhappy if we had to do changes in the layout engine just to accomodate > > the text renderer. I think I don't quite understand what you have in > > mind. > > > > Furthermore, I'm not sure if using different font-sizes in the case of > > the text renderer is a good idea. See also: > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/output.html#txt > > > > On 22.09.2005 10:21:32 Sergey Simonchik wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We've got into TxtRenderer that was in 0.20.5. It works fine for most of > > > examples but in some cases there are problems. For instance: > > > > > > ... > > > <fo:block text-align="right" font-size="10pt">Hi</fo:block> > > > <fo:block text-align="right" font-size="50pt">Helloworld</fo:block> > > > ... > > > > > > Align doesn't correct. > > > > > > It's seems that modifying formatting objects before constructing area > > tree > > > model may help to cope with such problems. > > > > > > > ------Original Message----- > > > > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:29 PM > > > > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > > > Cc: Danila Ermakov > > > > Subject: Re: txt-rendering > > > > > > > > Hi Sergey, > > > > unfortunately, you didn't notice the TXTRenderer that was in 0.20.5 > > [1]. > > > > The text renderer seems to work fine for many people who work with FOP > > > > 0.20.5. IMO it should be simple to port that renderer to FOP Trunk. > > The > > > > TXTRenderer currently found in FOP Trunk is only an empty shell which > > > > needs to be filled. I'd investigate that before doing any serious > > coding > > > > on a completely new TextRenderer. Please have a look at TXTRenderer > > and > > > > get back to us so we can sort out any details. The old TXTRenderer is > > > > capable of creating good output without any special handling in the > > area > > > > tree. You will also find discussion snippets around the TXTRenderer in > > > > the mailing list archives which should give you an idea about its > > design. > > > > BTW, I'm glad that you're going to reintroduce the TextRenderer. > > > > AFAIK, there's still a open issue with a patch [2] where I asked you > > to > > > > send in an ICLA so I can commit the patch. So far, I haven't seen an > > > > ICLA being recorded with your name. > > > > [1] > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop/branches/fop-0_20_2-> > > > maintain/src/org/apache/fop/render/txt/ > > > > [2] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36480 > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki Jeremias Maerki
