Yes, that's pretty much my view of the whole thing. On 08.03.2007 18:29:07 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Guys, > > thanks for your inputs. That strengthens a bit the picture I have in > mind. I'm wondering if the following makes any sense: > > We would have a list of page-level Knuth elements; some of those > elements would be wrapper around line-level Knuth elements. Almost every > element would contain a Position pointing to the LayoutManager that > generated the element. Special elements created to achieve various > effects (say, text-centering), would contain null Positions. > > The breaking algorithm would break the list of Knuth elements into > chunks representing lines/pages. From that we would iterate over the > non-null Positions, and for each one call > position.getLM().addArea(position). That is, the position would notify > its LM that its corresponding areas must be added. > > For page-level elements wrapping line-level elements, we would also > iterate over the wrapped inline Positions. > > > Now, does that picture represent the current code? If not, what is > missing/wrong, apart from the many details relevant to each particular > LM? Does that make sense? <snip/>
Jeremias Maerki
