Extend compliance document

2005-08-09 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi, My name is Patrick Paul and I just joined the fop-dev mailing list. As a first contribution to the project, I would like to extend the compliance document to show 1.0dev capabilities and allow comparison between 0.20.5 and 1.0dev. Afterwards I hope to extend the documentation

Re: Code cleanup questions

2005-08-11 Thread Patrick Paul
of the docs. Regards J.Pietschmann Regards, Patrick Paul

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
I would like to take care of that. I should have some free time in the next few weeks, so I will start doing a little bit everyday starting Wednesday. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: While we're at it: In preparation for the first release we need to start thinking about a refactoring of our

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Paul
Ok, so from what I understand you want to do, I think that what the Lenya project did looks good. http://lenya.apache.org/ What do you think ? Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: While we're at it: In preparation for the first release we need to start thinking about a refactoring of our

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Paul
I have figured out how the documentation files work and how to edit them. I still have to figure out how to get the site to build on my local machine and then I will be in business. What way you suggest I send the changes to you ? Thanks, Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Very cool

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-27 Thread Patrick Paul
just now. That would distract me too much at this stage of development. Even the Lenya project uses Forrest for their website. :-) On 27.08.2005 04:31:55 Patrick Paul wrote: Ok, so from what I understand you want to do, I think that what the Lenya project did looks good. http

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-27 Thread Patrick Paul
Perfect, I will be working towards something like that. Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Sorry, I got the wrong impression. Since it's a CMS I thought you suggested we use that. But you're right. The tab structure like Lenya has it is exactly what we need. I think we'll end up

Re: Let's write the release plan for the first preview release

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Paul
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Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Paul
Just an update to let you know I should have something ready to show you this week-end. Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Ok, so let's try to come up with a list. I see: The whole Using FOP section - compiling.xml - configuration.xml - running.xml - embedding.xml - servlets.xml

Re: FOP website, release preparations: refactoring necessary

2005-09-10 Thread Patrick Paul
files around, for example the ones listed below are now in a directory called 0.20.5). I hope this is not a big issue. Cheers, Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Ok, so let's try to come up with a list. I see: The whole Using FOP section - compiling.xml - configuration.xml - running.xml

Website refactoring

2005-10-18 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi, I will be fixing the BROKEN: No pipeline matched request: warnings in the next few days for the new refactored website. If anyone has other requests or ideas for the new website I would be glad to hear about them. Have a nice day everyone. Patrick Paul

Google Summer of Code

2006-04-18 Thread Patrick Paul
Hello everyone, As you may know Google is doing their Summer of Code program again this summer. http://code.google.com/soc/ I would be interested in applying to do some work on FOP this summer. Would you have suggestions about specific developments that would greatly help improve FOP ?

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
that is not on any of my clients' wishlists so it goes on my private task list on which I have other higher priority items. :-o You'd be the hero implementing that! I'm sure there are other things you could do. You've got good Java skills, haven't you? On 18.04.2006 20:53:30 Patrick Paul wrote

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
investigate. Otherwise, one thing I'm dreaming of for long but that I'll never have time to do is float implementation, both before-floats and side-floats. I think there is a number of Docbook users using Fop for PDF output who would benefit from that. What's your opinion? Vincent Patrick Paul

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
and then we add some optional additional goals. That should help making sure we don't set the bar unrealistically high if we can't do a good estimate. I'm glad to hear you want to contribute beyond the SoC boundaries. It's good to get new blood into the project. On 19.04.2006 18:38:35 Patrick

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-23 Thread Patrick Paul
That's great thank you. I added my own page. It's only a start for now. I took some presentation ideas from you, I hope you don't mind too much. I won't mind if you do the same in the future. Cheers, Patrick Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about setting up a page on the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-24 Thread Patrick Paul
Thank you Jeremias for your amendements. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: Thanks, Vincent and Patrick, for writing down your proposals. Patrick's is pretty clear. I've only amended it a little. I hope it won't be a problem that the task cannot be well estimated, yet. Vincent, a comment on

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-27 Thread Patrick Paul
Jeremias, Do you think we should have our two projects posted on the Apache Wiki ? http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2006 Is it better to go through that page, or will our proposals be forwarded directly to you anyway ? Thanks, Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't see why you

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-28 Thread Patrick Paul
is to identify the projects inside the ASF. I'll need to read through the whole mentoring info and stuff during the weekend. You can list me as a mentor on both projects. If I can get help from another FOP committer mentoring, all the better. On 27.04.2006 16:22:44 Patrick Paul wrote: Jeremias, Do you

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-03 Thread Patrick Paul
. Realized only today that I have to sign up, too, as a mentor. http://code.google.com/ On 28.04.2006 17:24:43 Patrick Paul wrote: Same here, I've added an entry for auto table layout, right after Vincents. Patrick Vincent Hennebert wrote: Ok, I've added an entry for floats

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-05 Thread Patrick Paul
who should be back on Sunday. If he enters his proposal then, everything should be fine. Vincent, ping me when you entered it so I can go right to the ranking part. On 05.05.2006 18:27:50 Patrick Paul wrote: Hi Jeremias, Any news from GSoC ? Were you able to see my application and rank

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-24 Thread Patrick Paul
Hello everyone, Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to work on the auto table layout. Thank you very much Jeremias for taking the time to apply as a mentor and rank our projects. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: Got it and rated it. All green! :-) On

[GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-12 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi all, I will be posting some questions under this thread about the auto-table layout I am working on. My first question, really simple but confusing to me, is about what is supposed to happen when table-layout=fixed and one of the columns has column-width=auto ? Am I supposed to find out the

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-13 Thread Patrick Paul
. On 12.07.2006 22:55:44 Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Jul 12, 2006, at 22:11, Patrick Paul wrote: Hi Patrick, My first question, really simple but confusing to me, is about what is supposed to happen when table-layout=fixed and one of the columns has column-width=auto ? Am I supposed to find

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-17 Thread Patrick Paul
-column-width(1) (see FOPropertyMapping). If that's correct and usable remains to be seen. On 13.07.2006 18:20:46 Patrick Paul wrote: Thank you for the advice. I will sum this up on the wiki page. So if I understand correctly we have to support certain values even if they are illegal

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Paul
Hello everyone, I've been playing a little with the TableLayoutManager code. If someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction on how to determine the full length of each element list, it would help a great deal. Thank you, Patrick Patrick Paul wrote: Hi all, I

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Paul
you, Patrick Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Jul 18, 2006, at 20:46, Patrick Paul wrote: Hi Patrick, I've been playing a little with the TableLayoutManager code. If someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction on how to determine the full length of each element list

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Paul
do the line breaking as long as you don't know the available IPD. http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AutoTableLayout HTH On 18.07.2006 21:30:39 Patrick Paul wrote: Great this is exactly what I needed, just didn't know where to look (just as I received your message I had coded my own little

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Paul
? If this is correct, how do you recommend I do this split ? Should I create a new LineLayoutManager ? Or should I actually change the LineLayoutManger and reflect the change anywhere it is necessary in the code ? Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Here are my notes on AutoTableLayout I collected last

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-19 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi, I think I am trying to solve this the wrong way. I just realized there is a getKnuthElementsForRowIterator() method in the TableContentLM which in turn makes use of cellLM.getNextKnuthElements() ... Patrick Patrick Paul wrote: Thanks for the pointers. The intended meaning of un

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-07-28 Thread Patrick Paul
some time soon! Thank you, Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Sorry for the delay. Too much going on right now. On 19.07.2006 01:37:57 Patrick Paul wrote: Just to make sure I understand things correctly, the element list construction needs to be seperated from the line breaking

Re: [GSoC] Auto-table layout questions

2006-08-06 Thread Patrick Paul
Jeremias Maerki wrote: BTW, Patrick, when I checked the ICLA status of you and Vincent I saw that you still don't have an ICLA on file with the ASF. Please sign and send (i.e. fax) one to the ASF secretary: http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas Thanks. Jeremias Maerki Hi Jeremias, I've

Re: Fwd: svn commit: r433291 ...

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip / URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=433291view=rev Log: Rework of default column-creation and setting column-widths from the first row (fixes Bugzilla 35656) For Patrick, only this tiny bit changes: The

Re: Q: Line-layout - separating element-list creation / line-breaking

2006-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Hi all, Hello everyone ;-) I've been doing some thinking myself about the separation between element-list creation and actual line-breaking, and went wandering through the related sources. Just checking here if my initial estimates are correct. At first

Re: Q: Line-layout - separating element-list creation / line-breaking

2006-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Aug 23, 2006, at 17:44, Patrick Paul wrote: snip / Why not keep getNextKnuthElements() wich does the line breaking depending on a boolean switch ? Then depending on wether the element list already exists, the (modified) collectKnuthElements() method

Re: Q: Line-layout - separating element-list creation / line-breaking

2006-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Aug 23, 2006, at 20:16, Patrick Paul wrote: snip / You are right. Thanks for the suggestion. I would even say that determine is misleading since the min and max content widths are calculated when getNextKnuthElements is called. So it maybe it would be better

Re: Q: Line-layout - separating element-list creation / line-breaking

2006-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
Simon Pepping wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:35:12PM +0200, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Hi all, I've been doing some thinking myself about the separation between element-list creation and actual line-breaking, and went wandering through the related sources. Just checking here if my

Re: Q: Line-layout - separating element-list creation / line-breaking

2006-08-23 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Aug 23, 2006, at 21:16, Patrick Paul wrote: Simon Pepping wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:35:12PM +0200, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: I've been doing some thinking myself about the separation between element-list creation and actual line-breaking, and went

Re: Generating Javadoc FOP documentation

2006-10-10 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi Nicol: ant -projecthelp This will give you help about the commands. So for javadoc do ant javadocs. HTH, Patrick Nicol Bolas wrote: How do you go about generating the Javadoc FOP documentation?

Re: ApacheCon US

2006-10-13 Thread Patrick Paul
Carsten Ziegeler from Cocoon, and met with Ferdinand Soethe from the Apache Forrest project. I found ApacheCon to be very well organized in general. The weather here in Austin is great. I'll be heading back to Montreal this afternoon. Regards to all, Patrick Paul Jeremias Maerki wrote: Patrick

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-21 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Jul 20, 2007, at 14:08, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote: Hi Hi Thought I'd chime in on this one as well... First off: I agree with the general sentiment that this is a very interesting initiative! That said, as a note of caution, I do wonder whether the motivation