On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:18:22PM +0300, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote: > But that still doesn't answer the question - if there are some Knuth > elements constructed - what is the best way to debug current Area Tree, > which contains them? And if there any mechanism to protect particular Area > Tree leafes (or graphs/branches) from additional restructure. Sorry if it's > out of context, i.e. we should never bother with such kind of protection > cause Knuth elements are pushed there during their processing.
If you want to study the area tree that is created, use the area tree output, command line option -at outfile: representation of area tree as XML (outfile req'd). Protecting the area tree or parts thereof is not relevant. The area tree is only constructed once. First the FO tree is constructed. Then the tree of LayoutManagers is constructed. These construct the Knuth elements. Then the Line or Page Breaker does its work. Then the LMs resume and construct the areas, according to the line and page breaking results and according to the content of their FOs, for which the Knuth elements contain pointers. The PageSequenceLM directs the page layout process, the LineLMs direct the paragraph layout process. The latter also happens in the table cells. I believe the TableLM directs the whole layout process of a table. This is where you want to enable auto table layout. But I am not aware of all details of table layout. I hope other FOP developers are able to help you. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
