I think I agree with Christian on this.  If you must support two "modes" in ColumnText 
and can't
make the non-rectangular columns work with Elements, then it seems appropriate to 
throw an exception
instead of just throwing away data.  I don't think a user of ColumnText would ever 
want you to throw
away data, that should always indicate that the user of the API made a programming 
mistake.
Regardless of how well it is documented in the javadoc, I think it will help people 
catch their
mistakes and avoid emails with more "idiotic questions".

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christian Lauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "iText Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] RE: ColumnText & PdfPCell patch


> An exception is too radical. The behavior is described in the javadocs and
> that should be enough. Those that don't read the javadocs will always find
> some excuse to post this or other idiotic question.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares




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