Development Task and Priorities (was Re: Print on demand using FOP)

[Chris Bowditch]

J.Pietschmann wrote:
I love it when you rattle a list off like this. I really ought to 
capture this and put it on the website somewhere, along with a priority.

There are a few things to do, though, including, but not
limited to:
- Justified text (killer!)
High
- Multi-column layout
High
- Footnotes
Medium
- Positioned blocks, both absolute and relative
High for absolute, Medium for relative
- Keeps
High
- Floats of all kind
Low
- Collapsed borders
Low (even RenderX doesnt have this)
- Fine-tuning all other borders
Low (or this)
- Background images
High
- Fine-tuning line breaking and hyphenation
Medium
- Conditional space suppression
High
- Last page layout
Medium
- Reparenting retrieved markers
High
- BIDI
Low
- Aligned leaders, especially in justified text
Medium
- Basically all non-PDF renderers
High for Postscript, all others are Low
Most of these are "must haves" for XSLFO compliance.
Of course, priorities are just my opinion, but I think we need to do all 
the highs in order to do an initial release, 0.5.0?

More improvements on the list (way down...)
- Metadata extensions
- Print control extensions
- OMR extensions
- Outline/bookmark control extensions
- Image retrival and cache control extensions
- User selectable line breaking strategy
- Fine-tuning vertical block justification, especially in
 multi column layouts
- TeX style, grey value controlled block filling
Chris
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