Speaking of extensions, I'd like to resurrect the layout extensions that
were part of the code used to start the Knuth branch, but I want to be
sure I'm allowed to do it.
The set of extensions (a couple of new properties, and some new value for
an existing one) is aimed to give the user more control about the page
breaking: in particular, via these extensions it is possible to give the
application a list of properties that can be adjusted in order to fill all
the available bpd of a region (in addition / substitution to the spaces
between blocks [1]).
I started writing a wiki page about these extensions on the wiki at
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/LayoutExtensions (I really should
take some time to finish it!).
My highest-priority, short-term task is still to fix the behaviour of
page-number and page-number-citation, as I think these formatting object
must work in the next release: I have almost done, just have to finish
handling the case of justified ext. After that, obviously if there are no
objections against this, I'd like to spend some time on the extensions,
that I'm sure could come in handy for fop-users producing book-style (or
report-style) documents.
For example, here is a link to a message in the xsl-editors mailing list
requesting a feature which is completely equivalent to one of the layout
extensions:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/2005JulSep/0007.html (many
thanks to Jeremias for pointing it out to me!). Should I be allowed to
keep working on this subject, I could answer him that fop will soon be
able to cope with his request.
Regards
Luca
[1] ... which makes me think that I should work on space resolution rules
too ... my to-do list keeps growing longer and longer! :-(
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