Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
space is is easy. And quite a few of the stuff is also documented on the WIKI. In summary, and I can speak here from my own recent experience, I don't share your concerns about the Knuth approach increasing the maintainability cost of the fop code base. If you guys are happy with how the design

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to the Wiki. Peter -- Peter B. West http://cv.pbw.id.au/ Folio http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Luca Furini
Peter B. West wrote: Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to the Wiki. Well, not entirely co-incidental! :-) I started writing the page some time ago, but never found the time to finish it: your message made me think I really couldn't put this off any longer, so

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Luca Furini wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to the Wiki. Well, not entirely co-incidental! :-) I started writing the page some time ago, but never found the time to finish it: your message made me think I really couldn't put this

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Manuel Mall
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:00 pm, Peter B. West wrote: Luca Furini wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to snip/ Luca, There seem to be some misapprehensions about what you are attempting; perhaps they are mine, so please clarify this.

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-30 Thread Luca Furini
Peter B. West wrote: There seem to be some misapprehensions about what you are attempting; perhaps they are mine, so please clarify this. As I understand it, the mature, well-documented technology is the line-breaking, as in Breaking Lines Into Paragraphs. Using this model for page-breaking

Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
Fopsters, I've always been somewhat sceptical of the new approach to page breaking, although I was prepared to concede that it would be a great achievement if you pulled it off. However, the closer the development has come to fruition, the more some of my original concerns have been

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter S. Housel
Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Pepping wrote: Maintaining FOP means maintaining a digital typesetting system means maintaining some of the best digital typography algorithms. I plan to resume my documenting activities in the coming months. I look forward to the challenge to