On Monday 27 February 2006 23:37, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I'm considering removing the "character" area tree object and instead > map an fo:character to a normal text area with one word child. > fo:characters are rarely used so this doesn't add much to the memory > consumption of the area tree but reduces the complexity (or code > duplication) of the text rendering code in the renderers a lot. > > There are a few properties specific to fo:character which could lead > you to think that a character area tree object might be necessary. > But the non-inherited supress-at-line-break and treat-as-word-space, > for example, are only used by the layout engine, not by the renderer. > The two inherited properties glyph-orientation-horizontal|-vertical > actually apply to any text node because (as Manuel pointed out) they > are all converted to fo:character nodes. Of course, we don't really > do that, but this means that the effect of these last two properties > have to be taken over into the area tree in any case (explicit > fo:character or not). > > Does anybody see a problem with removing the character area tree > object? >
+1 I like the suggestion. > Jeremias Maerki Manuel
