Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 23.03.2005 18:20:24 Luca Furini wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > I wonder how Luca > > handled lists which is a similar problem. > > I only handled the simplest situation, in which the label creates just a > line. > > At the moment, I'm carefully looking at your work (wow, everything se

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-23 Thread Luca Furini
Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I wonder how Luca > handled lists which is a similar problem. I only handled the simplest situation, in which the label creates just a line. At the moment, I'm carefully looking at your work (wow, everything seems much clearer! :-) ) and reading your messages about table

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Don't worry, I'm not trying to solve auto table layout. Take line-height on a block or block-progression-dimension on an external-graphic, for example. Both support min/opt/max values which means that the generated vboxes can (theoretically) get stretch and shrink, too. I don

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-22 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Don't worry, I'm not trying to solve auto table layout. Take line-height on a block or block-progression-dimension on an external-graphic, for example. Both support min/opt/max values which means that the generated vboxes can (theoretically) get stretch and shrink, too. I don't think we have code f

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Thanks. But well, I've just realized that I neglected a certain aspect of table layout in my preparations which turns out not to be so simple. Some might have seen my notes on the Wiki about breaking cells [1]. This was done while I was still thinking in terms of the old appr

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-22 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks. But well, I've just realized that I neglected a certain aspect of table layout in my preparations which turns out not to be so simple. Some might have seen my notes on the Wiki about breaking cells [1]. This was done while I was still thinking in terms of the old approach. Now with the Knut

Re: WIP: tables

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Luca mentioned that he has been working on lists. So after the branch is now in place and some basic features are working I'll be working on resurrecting table support now. JFYI. Thanks for letting us know Jeremias. Good luck. Chris