Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-11 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Glen Mazza wrote: I believe the same logger reference would just be used with each thread instead, es, and this is exactly the problem. It is conceivable that different loggers might be used for different processors which run in concurrent threads. A static logger reference

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-11 Thread J.Pietschmann
Glen Mazza wrote: I believe the same logger reference would just be used with each thread instead, es, and this is exactly the problem. It is conceivable that different loggers might be used for different processors which run in concurrent threads. A static logger reference prohibits this. J.Piets

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-10 Thread Glen Mazza
J.Pietschmann wrote: Mutable static data, like a static logger reference, interferes severely with using FOP in an MT environment, because this means "one thread rendering globally" rather than "one thread per FO processor rendering, perhaps using multiple processors, each one in a separate thread

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-10 Thread Clay Leeds
Simon Pepping wrote: I like Joerg's idea of a Global Context object. It seems to have a wider scope than FOUserAgent. An FOUserAgent object could be part of it. From the maintenance code's configuration it would need to have baseDir, fontBaseDir, hyphenation-dir and strokeSVGText. Font information

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-10 Thread Simon Pepping
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:52:31AM -0400, Glen Mazza wrote: > > Joerg I believe just recommended storing the user configuration in > FOUserAgent, which is already getting passed around everywhere. Using > my favorite design pattern, Moving Part Reduction, I also think it would > be ideal if we

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Glen Mazza wrote: BTW, what other things besides hyphenation needs to go into user configuration/fo user agent, say for 1.0? Various strategy parameters, once they are implemented, like line breaking strategy; furthermore callbacks for redrawing pages in a GUI renderer, font management, base URL f

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Glen Mazza wrote: Should FOP itself multithread, or would it be better to let whatever would call FOP do the multithreading? I don't understand this. Even if the main processing methods of the FO processing object are synchronizend, which is probaly what you understand by "FOP isn't MT safe itself

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread Glen Mazza
Glen Mazza wrote: I don't know what Xalan does with their translets, I suspect they just rely on the caller to implement it. Oops--my error--the translets just generate Java code. My comment was in general for the need of XML processors such as Xalan and FOP to implement MT internally. Glen

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread Glen Mazza
Jeremias Maerki wrote: The first two frames are in static context. The LMs share a reference to a user agent object, of type layoutmgr.AbstractLayoutManager.userAgent. Would this be the right object to hold a reference to the user configuration? On first thought, yes. But I feel the scope of

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread Glen Mazza
J.Pietschmann wrote: Static objects are bad because of the usual MT issues (yeah, even for logging). Should FOP itself multithread, or would it be better to let whatever would call FOP do the multithreading? I don't know what Xalan does with their translets, I suspect they just rely on the call

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Simon Pepping wrote: But hyphenation is done deep down in the process, where any reference to the start-up objects is lost. How can I configure it? The idea is to use an object which represents some global context and is reachable from nearly anywhere in the FO tree and LM tree. I'd think the user

Re: User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 08.05.2004 23:04:40 Simon Pepping wrote: > I am trying to enable user configuration of the directory of > hyphenation files, like in the maintenance code. Configuration of the > renderers is easy, because they are instantiated in Fop.main(). But > hyphenation is done deep down in the process, w

User configuration for hyphenation

2004-05-08 Thread Simon Pepping
Hi, I am trying to enable user configuration of the directory of hyphenation files, like in the maintenance code. Configuration of the renderers is easy, because they are instantiated in Fop.main(). But hyphenation is done deep down in the process, where any reference to the start-up objects is lo