Hi, Fortunately I found a way to work around the limitation of the patch. Main limitation for me was that it didn't work when the containing block or the table itself had a margin-left set. Using a table with 2 columns, the 1st one with the width of the wanted margin, the second one containing the auto-layouted table in question. Ugly, but the results are very good for my case.
The only unfortunate thing now is that the patch is for a revision of about a year ago and not compatible with current trunk. But that's not really an issue for me. Peter Op 26 mrt 2010, om 12:04 heeft Vincent Hennebert het volgende geschreven: > Hi, > > Adrian Cumiskey wrote: >> HI Simon, >> >> I'm not sure it would, a very complex subject that would require a lot of >> time just to understand all the considerations involved. There is a good >> reason why it has not been implemented up to now. > > Agreed. The table code is too complicated and would require too much > time to dive in. Even I have difficulties debugging my own code, and > I have built up quite some experience now... > > The underlying data model is not appropriate and has been pushed beyond > its limits. I don’t think anything more can be done on tables because > that would inevitably break something. > > Of course, that’s bad news for Peter... The only possibility IMO is to > implement some limited, ad hoc functionality that would work in some > specific use case. Maybe adapting the patch from Bugzilla #47347 to the > current Trunk is doable in a reasonable amount of time. > > The other possibility is to refactor the whole layout engine... > > > Vincent > > >> I think providing a more >> automated build/release process would be a far more suitable and achievable >> project for someone completely new to the project. >> >> Adrian. >> >> On 25 March 2010 07:24, Simon Pepping <spepp...@leverkruid.eu> wrote: >> >>> FOP devs, >>> >>> Would this be suitable for a GSoC project? It is certainly not >>> trivial, and the candidate should have a reasonable chance of success. >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:57:47PM +0000, Peterdk wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am wondering, I need a basic version of table-layout=auto. It's not yet >>>> implemented with FOP. >>>> I am willing to set a bounty of max 250$ for it, if it's implemented to a >>>> level that I can use it for my project. >>>> Are there any devs interested and willing to work on this? For the bounty >>>> it would be needed to be ready in about 3 months. >>>> >>>> I know there is a patch in bugzilla for a older rev. that gives basic >>>> functionality, but it fails to work when margin's are applied to the >>> parent >>>> block or the table itself. I have contacted the author of this patch, but >>> I >>>> would rather have a FOP dev work on auto-table-layout so the >>> functionality >>>> will be included in the trunk version so other users also benefit, and I >>>> prefer to support some FOP dev with some money rather then a other >>>> programmer. >>>> >>>> Anybody interested? >>>> >>>> Peter, NL >>>> >>> -- >>> Simon Pepping >>> home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
