On Dec 6, 2006, at 20:39, Simon Pepping wrote:
Hi folks,
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:19:01PM +0100, Luca Furini wrote:
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I agree with you that it would be good to have them configurable.
Your idea is to put them in the configuration file or in the fo file
itself? At the moment, my preference would be for the first option.
I also prefer the configuration file. I would modify the configuration
file when I would be looking for the best result in a number of test
runs.
FWIW, I'm more leaning towards Vincent's proposal to implement this
as extension attributes. The sketched 'best result' could then be
found in a single run, copying the same fo-subtree multiple times --
different page-sequences?-- and specifying different values in the
attributes.
In the worst case, to make the best result definitive, the user would
have to re-run the document, maintaining only the subtree that leads
to the most desired layout.
In the best case, maybe FOP itself could be taught to re-layout one
and the same subtree with a subtle property change at the root (which
would save re-parsing the XML, and --if applicable-- also the XSL
transform).
Cheers,
Andreas
