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-breakin

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 > 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 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 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 I

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 Folio smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
appropriate Knuth sequence once you know what the resolved 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

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Manuel Mall
situation, which is the hard part. Generating the appropriate Knuth sequence once you know what the resolved 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. > Peter Manuel

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
Peter S. Housel wrote: "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 forw

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 do

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Peter B. West
Simon Pepping wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:50:15PM +0100, Peter B. West wrote: 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 deve

Re: Maintainability

2005-09-29 Thread Simon Pepping
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:50:15PM +0100, Peter B. West wrote: > 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

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 reinforc