Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 23:29, Karen Lease wrote: Hi Keiron, Keiron Liddle wrote: snip/ The line height calculation and alignment is only very basic at the moment. The idea is that the LineLM gets certain information to find the offset to baseline and total line height and when the

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Karen, On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:57, Karen Lease wrote: Hi Keiron etc, I'm really happy to see all this movement going on and folks from the maintenance branch getting into the redesign to help you out. I'm hoping to be able to start contributing again too, perhaps not right away,

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Tony Graham
Karen Lease wrote at 20 Aug 2002 23:07:46 +0200: That would be good. I haven't looked at it for a month or so, but I had (as usual) some questions about various statements in the XSL-FO spec concerning the interpretation of the various properties. Perhaps we could go over those issues

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Tony, Thanks for the advice. I have already started to look at the OpenType standard, in particular the parts describing the various baselines. Unfortunately I don't suppose I'll be attending the Unicode conference but perhaps someone here will be and could listen to Steve's talk and

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Keiron, Keiron Liddle wrote: snip/ The line height calculation and alignment is only very basic at the moment. The idea is that the LineLM gets certain information to find the offset to baseline and total line height and when the InlineLM add areas they use this information to set the

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
Karen Lease wrote: ..., since a BreakPoss is really just a potential Area. Just nitpicking: It is the state of a LM tree, and in that sense certainly a bit more than a potential area. The equivalent of that logic on the block stacking level could be to have all block-level LM except the

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:58, J.Pietschmann wrote: Keiron Liddle wrote: - Add markers to page when areas added Is this really a good idea? Markers may be referenced long after they have been defined, tying them to the Page object would require keeping the pages in memory (see 0.20.5cvs:

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:13, J.Pietschmann wrote: Keiron Liddle wrote: - Implement table layout The table layout will use the same technique as the block layout. It will locate suitable breaks between rows or inside rows until table finished or end of bpd reached. Actually, what

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Karen Lease
: -Original Message- From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 19, 2002 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tasks - layout [ SNIP ] With regard to the line-height calculations, is anybody in the group interested in getting into the gory details of the baseline stuff

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:07, J.Pietschmann wrote: Keiron Liddle wrote: I don't think we should expect or even want people to understand everything. I think it's preferable that people hacking around in the code understand *something*. Of course, but how can we make it understandable.

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: - Add markers to page when areas added Is this really a good idea? Markers may be referenced long after they have been defined, tying them to the Page object would require keeping the pages in memory (see 0.20.5cvs: forward page references are *required* to force keeping

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: - Implement table layout The table layout will use the same technique as the block layout. It will locate suitable breaks between rows or inside rows until table finished or end of bpd reached. Actually, what *are* valid breaks within a table apart from breaks between

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Keiron etc, I'm really happy to see all this movement going on and folks from the maintenance branch getting into the redesign to help you out. I'm hoping to be able to start contributing again too, perhaps not right away, but hopefully in September. There may even be some possibility of

RE: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 19, 2002 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tasks - layout [ SNIP ] With regard to the line-height calculations, is anybody in the group interested in getting into the gory details of the baseline

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-14 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: - Add static areas to page The static areas will need to be handled in a similar way to the flow except the bpd is unlimited and it will need to reset and repeat for each page. I looked at it. Is static content supposed to be handled by a FlowLayoutManager too? It

AW: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 21:17, J.U. Anderegg wrote: o Are there specified packages, classes to be programmed? Are the interfaces/interface objects specified? Mostly yes, and if someone wants more information I can go into more detail. o Are prerequisite packages or test drivers available?

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 13:44, Kevin O'Neill wrote: These are just some of the things, I will add them to the todo list. If there is a decent response then there are more that can be added. Any PDF tasks? - Encryption and signing - Reusing pdf objects that links create - form XObject Those

Tasks - layout

2002-08-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
Now that we have some pagination there are lots of areas that people can work on. If you want to implement any of these and have any questions then just ask. Once we can get a few of these done then we could do a developers release. - Add static areas to page The static areas will need to

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-12 Thread Kevin O'Neill
These are just some of the things, I will add them to the todo list. If there is a decent response then there are more that can be added. Any PDF tasks? -- If you don't test then your code is only a collection of bugs which apparently behave like a working program. Website: