Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread TomWilcox
Hi Guys, Sorry to return your attention to this aging thread! I am knee deep in IF and I have a been attempting to divine what each of the different node attributes represent such as bpd (block progression dimension?), etc. It would be really good to have a definitive description of the

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread Georg Datterl
: www.willmycc.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: TomWilcox [mailto:wil...@hp.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. August 2009 16:26 An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling Hi Guys, Sorry to return your attention to this aging thread

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread Jeremias Maerki
There's no formal documentation of the area tree XML format to date. It is something very very few people need to use and the whole thing grew organically over time, so documentation wasn't a top priority. A contribution in this direction would be highly welcome. I'm happy to fill in any blanks if

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread TomWilcox
Hi Jeremias and Georg, Thanks very much. That's really helpful and at least good to know that no proper documentation exists. I have taken the liberty of starting a wiki to share this information whilst I attempt to accumulate more info about the IF tree. If anyone would like to contribute

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread TomWilcox
Hi Jeremias and Georg, Thanks very much. That's really helpful and at least good to know that no proper documentation exists. I have taken the liberty of starting a wiki to share this information whilst I attempt to accumulate more info about the IF tree. If anyone would like to contribute

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Tom, that's great, but why don't you just use our main Wiki? http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ Another request: Please call this area tree XML rather than intermediate format. Yes, we called it that in the past but we have two intermediate formats now, so it's necessary to keep the two

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread TomWilcox
OK Can do.. Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote: Tom, that's great, but why don't you just use our main Wiki? http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ Another request: Please call this area tree XML rather than intermediate format. Yes, we called it that in the past but we have two intermediate

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-08-25 Thread TomWilcox
Alright Jeremias I have created a page for the AT XML Documentation on the FOP wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AreaTreeXMLDocumentation I have taken the liberty of adding a link to it on the main page to encourage awareness.. Thanks for your help. Tom Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote:

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2009-07-14 Thread Georg Datterl
Hi Tom, First, AT ist going out of style, as far as I understood. The new IntermediateFormat will replace it. Second, I don't see how an API would help you. Of course, you can modify the AT objects and for example, add text. But to get a meaningfull result, the whole breaking/layouting, which

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-07-14 Thread TomWilcox
Cheers Georg, I look forward to getting into the IF however I was under the impression it is still very much in the development phase.. Geord Datterl wrote: What I did and what might help you too: I need to build a FO file (no transformation), so I built wrappers around the different FO

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-07-14 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On 14 Jul 2009, at 16:43, TomWilcox wrote: Hi Tom, Georg, I look forward to getting into the IF however I was under the impression it is still very much in the development phase.. Well, it is only available in the SVN repo, so in the sense that it is not officially released yet, it is

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2009-07-14 Thread Georg Datterl
An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling On 14 Jul 2009, at 16:43, TomWilcox wrote: Hi Tom, Georg, I look forward to getting into the IF however I was under the impression it is still very much in the development phase.. Well, it is only available

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Area Tree Handling

2009-07-14 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On 14 Jul 2009, at 17:31, Georg Datterl wrote: Well, it is only available in the SVN repo, so in the sense that it is not officially released yet, it is indeed in development. That said, some users consider trunk to be stable enough to use in production environments. As far as I