Re: Characters and area traits

[Chris Bowditch]

Manuel Mall wrote:

Still waiting for some feedback here from others. I am reluctant to 
change the interface to the renderers without other committers agreeing 
because such a change affects every renderer out there. On the other 
hand it feels a bit like a kludge to treat/represent <fo:character ... 
character="x" /> as <fo:inline ...>x</fo:inline>. There are also some 
subtleties in the handling of some properties which are interpreted 
differently when specified on a fo:character to a fo:inline.

Well I tend to agree. Treating fo:character as fo:inline just because 
the Renderer interface doesn't have a renderCharacter method is a nasty 
bodge. As you say if there are subtleties to be observed when rendering 
an fo:character then go ahead and change the Renderer interface.

Chris