No worries. I'm enough of a control freak to not rely on automatic layout of anything, even in systems that let me do it.
Besides, I'm making plenty fine documents with FOP as it is, so anything more is just a bonus anyway. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Syngergistic Solution Technologies) "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/15/2005 02:03 PM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Can tables be nested within one another... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fo:table-column being optional is yet more reason to look forward to the > new version. Ah, spring, when we await new software growth.... Automatic table layout is unlikely to happen soon. It is a *hard* problem, and usually involves backtracking. Note that "fast table reflow" was one of the top three design goals of the gecko HTML rendering engine, and it took a lot of manpower to get it right. Also, I have no real good idea what specific goals a "good" automatic table layout actually implies. Only two immediately come to mind: 1. A column should be at least as wide as the area minimal width return by the child areas 2. The columns should be as balanced as possible. With automatic hyphenation and downscaling of images, there is not much which enforces a minimal column width, i.e. there are quite a few cases where goal 1 is not much of a help :-( J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
