Re: More table borders

2005-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hmm, you're right. That should make things easier. BTW, I've got the raw algorithm together now to handle borders and tables and footers. Now I only have to deal with a few deals (mostly border stuff). After that I'm happy to call a vote for merging the branch back into HEAD. On 09.05.2005 10:44:

Re: More table borders

2005-05-09 Thread Luca Furini
Jeremias Maerki wrote: > So far I can only see the brute-force method (discarding element > lists after the break and somehow backtrack while cleverly optimizing so > as not to create too many discarded objects - still a non-trivial thing > over all). Andrea's idea of "recycling" elements instead

Re: More table borders

2005-05-04 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 04.05.2005 22:16:40 Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > IIUC, this borderline case would result in the entire table basically being > > one row-group (? In every row there is always one cell spanning from the > > previous row as well as another cell spanning to the next) > > Yes. Funny example to run t

Re: More table borders

2005-05-04 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 04.05.2005 21:09:00 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On 27.04.2005 18:28:55 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > > > > BTW: Does this problem pose itself only if a single cell > > > or row spans more than two pages,

RE: More table borders

2005-05-04 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 27.04.2005 18:28:55 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > > BTW: Does this problem pose itself only if a single cell > > or row spans more than two pages, or also when an entire > > row-group does so? > > Possibly, yes.

Re: More table borders

2005-05-03 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Just found this unanswered. Sorry. On 27.04.2005 18:28:55 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > > I've already documented a known problem [5] (at > > > the bottom). I just hope it won't bite us later on. > > > > > > [5] > > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/TableLayout/KnuthElementsForTables > > >

RE: More table borders

2005-04-27 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Luca Furini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > I'm a bit concerned about the increasing complexity of this. It takes > > considerable time just to understand and play through all these examples > > and after that implementing it so that

Re: More table borders

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 26.04.2005 18:44:38 Luca Furini wrote: > > I've already documented a known problem [5] (at > > the bottom). I just hope it won't bite us later on. > > > > [5] > > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/TableLayout/KnuthElementsForTables > > I don't think it is a dangerous problem: it can be r

Re: More table borders

2005-04-26 Thread Luca Furini
Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I'm a bit concerned about the increasing complexity of this. It takes > considerable time just to understand and play through all these examples > and after that implementing it so that the code is still readable. Of > course, we documented our findings pretty well, althou

Re: More table borders

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
My latest example is now fully explored and seems to work. It took me almost all day, but at least I got some valuable insight for the extended algorithm I need to write as the next step. I hope we now have everything together and I don't get any surprises. http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/T

More table borders

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've just updated [1] with all break possibilities for the third example [2] I mentioned in an earlier post [3]. [1] http://people.apache.org/~jeremias/fop/KnuthBoxesForTablesWithBorders.pdf [2] http://people.apache.org/~jeremias/fop/table-border-special1.fo [3] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mo