Why deprecate? It's not part of our external API. We can simply remove the method if it's dangerous.
On 16.06.2008 17:28:01 Luca Furini wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:52 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fixing the PageBreakingAlgorithm, replacing calls to getLineWidth() with > > getLineWidth(int) > > so as to take into account each page's real height. > > This fixes the positioning of footnotes when the page bpd is not the same > > for all pages. > > This was a little nasty bug I stumbled upon a few days ago, and it > took me some time to track back where the problem was ... > > The PageBreakingAlgorithm, in particular the computeDifference() > method, had some calls to getLineWidth() without parameters and some > other with an int parameter indicating the page. > When the page bpd changes from page to page, the two methods returned > different values, with the effect that the algorithm first believed it > could place a whole footnote in the page, and then found out that this > led to an overflow. > > In order to avoid similar problems, the parameter-less getLineWidth() > method could maybe be deprecated? > > Regards > Luca Jeremias Maerki
