On 30.09.2005 10:17:24 Simon Pepping wrote: > Hi, > > Some thoughts about the space resolution implementation notes. > > I believe that borders and padding are not unresolvable elements. They > can always be determined by their LM because they do not interact with > the borders and padding of other LMs. They do influence space > resolution. They act as fences and break space sequences into several > separate stacking constraints. This can be taken into account by the > Space Resolver if the Knuth elements for the borders and padding make > it clear that they are a fence to stacking constraints.
I make a distinction between unresolvable and unresolved. I agree with the above but found it easier to work with border and padding as "unresolved elements". Note that this only describes that the resolution is done at a different time. I assume it could be done without the special elements for borders and paddings. Maybe it will be changed later. > And some (perhaps irrelevant) observations about break possibility > building. > > The situation regarding retained borders and padding resembles the > situation of table headers and footers closely. Nevertheless, Jeremias > presents a Knuth element list which is simpler: > > penalty(pb-after) glue(-pb-before) box PENALTY glue(pb-before) > > According to the table header/footer treatment, the list would be: > > penalty(pb-before + pb-after) at each break possibility, representing > the border and padding on the page before the break. > > glue(pb-before + pb-after) at the end, representing the single > occurrence of the border and padding that occurs without any break. > > This solution would be especially more complicated for borders and > paddings of nested blocks. > > I am wondering why the element list for borders and paddings can be > constructed in a simpler way than that for table headers/footers. I > think it is due to the fact that glue can be undone, while boxes > cannot. I'm going to look at this more closely this week. For the moment I ignore spaces and conditional lengths surrounging a table. So I'll come back to this later. As my next step I'll review my code and will upload my changes in a temporary branch. Starting from there I'll jump into handling tables. Jeremias Maerki
