Hi Simon, FWIW, I don’t think what you did in your branch should be thrown away completely. Some of the issues you solved in this branch might be mostly (if not directly) translatable in my own approach. When I start a real implementation I have good hope that I will be able to take back some of those changes. More on this later, obviously.
Simon Pepping wrote: > Hi, > > Chris recently mentioned my interleaved page and linbreaking branch as > an active branch. I have not been very active recently. > > One reason is that I got stuck with block containers. FOP's approach > is to collect Knuth elements for a block list, doing line breaking at > the same time, and then do the page breaking. I do a similar thing, > but do line breaking not in the collection phase but in the page > breaking phase. For block containers this has the consequence that its > block lists have to be collected in the overall collection phase, but > that its page breaking has to be postponed to the overall page > breaking phase. I was not very successful in separating these two > phases. And I started to question this idea, because in the end we > want to integrate element collection and page and line breaking, not > separate them. > > The other reason is that Vincent is working on his approach, which is a > step further towards the eventual goal. Therefore it makes no sense to > work further on my own approach, the more so since he can spend much > more time to his approach. > > The final reason is that I can spend far less time on FOP coding > during this summer. > > I will spend what time I have on supporting Vincent's approach. > > Regards, Simon Cheers, Vincent -- Vincent Hennebert Anyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer FOP Development/Consulting
