Keiron, Undoubtedly it is better to put effort into getting the new code to work. However, if, at the moment, the direction of the main line of new code development is only really understood by you and Karen, work on these things by Joerg in the -maint branch may be very useful for a couple of reasons. The first is actually fixing some bugs. The second is that it will give him (and others who might want to join in) a much better idea of the problems that the new design is trying to solve.
As here, you can indicate, before he gets involved, which areas are going to be superceded and which he should therefore be cautious about getting too involved in. The end result may be that Joerg gets up to speed in the redesign as part of that process. In any case, it is probably encouraging for our users to see that there is bug-fixing activity going on in addition to redesign. What say you? Peter Keiron Liddle wrote: > These (and other) problems are precisely why certain areas have been > redesigned. > Wouldn't it be better to put the effort into getting the new code to > work? > > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:57, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: > >>I put a StringBuffer into FObjMixed to accumulate >>consecutive addCharacters() events. > > > This is probably a good idea in general. Sometimes the SAX events can > split text in all sort of places and it would be easier to handle if all > consecutive text is joined together. > > >>Questions: >>- Is it still worth to do major hacks in LineArea.java? > > > If you want to get rid of all the bugs, I would say no. > > >>There are additional issues with consecutive spaces which had >>been discussed here already, in particular how >> foo <fo:inline text-decoration="underline"> bar</fo:inline> >>should be handled. Will this result in two consecutive spaces, >>one of them underlined? Has this issue been resolved meanwhile? > > > IIRC the space in the inline is "marked" and therefore this space is > retained while the other space is discarded. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
