Re: Redesign

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Bowditch
Clay Leeds wrote: snip/ Just to be sure, are these amongst the changes you're looking for: Hi Clay, yes these are the changes I was looking for. If you could apply the changes manually I would be most grateful. Thanks, Chris Justified Text High This has been completed, thanks largely to

Re: Switch from AddLMVisitor to FObj.addLayoutManager()

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Bowditch
Victor Mote wrote: J.Pietschmann wrote: Well, the real stakeholders (aka users) are probably more interested in working footnotes, or multi-column layout. I don't understand. More interested in working footnotes or multi-column layout than what? Is removing AddLMVisitor an advancement in

Re: Switch from AddLMVisitor to FObj.addLayoutManager()

2004-08-02 Thread Glen Mazza
Well, the number of patches and enhancements made to layout/rendering has only been about 2-3 per month in the 12 months that we've had AddLMVisitor. FOP won't finish at that rate, and that *will* affect the users. In the 24 months preceding that change (i.e., the original design I'm

Re: Switch from AddLMVisitor to FObj.addLayoutManager()

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Pepping
I would rather remain silent in this acrimonious debate, but I suppose that would not help. I am in favour of a modular view of FOP: - input specification - layout - rendering I am in favour of reusability of the components. It would be good if the layout engine could be applied to different

Re: Redesign

2004-08-02 Thread Clay Leeds
On Aug 2, 2004, at 1:48 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote: Clay Leeds wrote: snip/ Just to be sure, are these amongst the changes you're looking for: Hi Clay, yes these are the changes I was looking for. If you could apply the changes manually I would be most grateful. Thanks, Chris Done. Keep in mind, I

Re: Switch from AddLMVisitor to FObj.addLayoutManager()

2004-08-02 Thread J.Pietschmann
Victor Mote wrote: I don't understand. More interested in working footnotes or multi-column layout than what? Is removing AddLMVisitor an advancement in getting footnotes or multi-column layout working better? Are you reminding us of your neutrality on modularity? Or are you saying that this kind