[jira] [Commented] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Gregor Berg (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=14560986#comment-14560986 ] Gregor Berg commented on FOP-2469: -- I tried to pass the information (whether the current LM

[jira] [Updated] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Gregor Berg (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Gregor Berg updated FOP-2469: - Attachment: 2015-05-27-LM-to-LC-refactoring.patch illustration of how a switch from LM bottom-up (O(n)) to

Re: Q - Internal API preference? (It started with a 'simple' TODO...)

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On 27 May 2015, at 01:59, Luis Bernardo lmpmberna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luis In my view any code that does more becomes more complex, not less comprehensible. The same happens with FOP. Very true, indeed. I recall having argued that same point on this list in the past. Doing more

[jira] [Assigned] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Andreas L. Delmelle reassigned FOP-2469: Assignee: Andreas L. Delmelle [PATCH] auto table layout -

Re: [jira] [Updated] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Delmelle
Hi Gregor Just a heads-up, if you're reading this: We (I) have not forgotten. :) Will probably have more time next week to have a closer look at your work. Thanks for updating the Wiki, BTW. That stuff is very valuable info! KR Andreas On 27 May 2015, at 15:51, Gregor Berg (JIRA)

Re: Q - Internal API preference? (It started with a 'simple' TODO...)

2015-05-27 Thread Glenn Adams
One significant risk in a major rewrite of an important section is regression. This is particularly true given the paucity of tests in FOP. You will have to assume that such a rewrite is going to produce a number of regressions (while continuing to pass the test suite). On Wed, May 27, 2015 at

Re: Q - Internal API preference? (It started with a 'simple' TODO...)

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Delmelle
Hi Glenn On 27 May 2015, at 18:36, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: One significant risk in a major rewrite of an important section is regression. This is particularly true given the paucity of tests in FOP. You will have to assume that such a rewrite is going to produce a number of

[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Andreas L. Delmelle updated FOP-2469: - Comment: was deleted (was: Side-note - Reading that (rather old) Wiki page again, with

Re: [jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Delmelle
FYI - Comment actually had nothing to do with the patch, so decided to remove it, so as to not let Gregor's fine work drown in unrelated ranting... On 27 May 2015, at 21:07, Andreas L. Delmelle (JIRA) j...@apache.org wrote: [

RE: FOP - POI

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2015-05-25 Andreas Delmelle wrote: On 2015-05-25 Jan Tosovsky wrote: can you hypothetically imagine any way how to convert virtual page objects to the office document structure? I actually I think of 'Slides' to PPTX (XSLF) conversion. There is not an easy way to produce

Re: FOP - POI

2015-05-27 Thread Matthias Reischenbacher
Hi Jan, I know pptx a bit, because I had to implement an output channel based mainly on XSLT and a little bit of java (used mainly for zip compression). Pptx is hard to understand because of all the cross references between the different files, but that wouldn't justify to add another

RE: FOP - POI

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Tosovsky
Hi Andreas, On 2015-05-27 Andreas Delmelle wrote: On 2015-05-27 Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2015-05-25 Andreas Delmelle wrote: snip / it seems like it may just be possible to achieve something like this by means of FOP's Intermediate Formats[*], which can already be utilised to split up

[jira] [Commented] (FOP-2469) [PATCH] auto table layout

2015-05-27 Thread Gregor Berg (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=14560501#comment-14560501 ] Gregor Berg commented on FOP-2469: -- I finished some documentation over the last week and