On Jun 27, 2007, at 23:31, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
I've noted some things here:
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FontSelectionStrategy
It's best to use that page to gather thoughts and come up with a
plan to
implement that feature.
Sorry, completely missed that Wiki update.
One thing there I don't feel like commenting on on the Wiki (since I
don't consider it a forum to have Q&A sessions):
What improvements to the font-family property did you have in mind?
AFAICT, the property resolution is already as complete as can be and
generates a list of font-families, only Font.getFontState() calls an
implementation of FontInfo.fontLookup() that just returns the first
family in the list...
Do these improvements refer to moving the fontLookup()-logic partly
to FontFamilyProperty? Say, for instance an additional method with a
signature like
getFontFamily(char c)
that returns the first font-family in the list containing a glyph for
the given char?
Also, I agree that FOText does not need to be touched, but even the
TextLM can be left alone. In fact, it is currently already so that if
a FOText contains more than Short.MAX_VALUE characters, it is split
into separate instances (because TextLM uses shorts as indices to the
ArrayInfos). Two separate TextLMs are automatically instantiated in
that case...
The only thing that would need to be altered in this scenario, is
moving the calls to getFontState() from the LM's initialize() method
to somewhere in FObjMixed (?)
I'll try to document this approach further in the days to come.
Cheers
Andreas
