Vincent, did you already investigate how footnotes are implemented? Can you say anything about how similar the problem of footnotes is to before-floats? Just so you don't have to start from scratch while there may be something to build upon. After all, the footnotes also contain some logic to move certain parts to a different page than where anchor is located.
Another thing that we may need to keep in mind: There was lots of desire from the user community that FOP supports large documents (long-term goal, not necessary yours). I wrote that a first-fit algorithm could help free memory earlier. Obviously, for complex before-float situations a total-fit approach is probably more interesting as it can come up with more "creative" solutions. I'm just mentioning it so we keep the bigger picture in mind and since there could be conflicting goals. On 29.05.2006 11:51:01 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may have already noticed, I've created a Wiki page [1] which will > contain progress informations on the implementation of floats for the > Summer of Code. I'm planning to use this page somewhat as a blog, which > I'll try to update regularly. > > Any comments will be welcome at any time during the project. > > Cheers, > Vincent > > [1] > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/GoogleSummerOfCode2006/FloatsImplementationProgress Jeremias Maerki
