Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-10-19 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Oct 19, 2007, at 13:32, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Oct 18, 2007, at 19:23, Vincent Hennebert wrote: I think I see your point. Basically you’re proposing a push method (a LM notifies its parent LM that it has a break-before) while mine is a pull method (a LM

Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-10-19 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Andreas, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: > On Oct 18, 2007, at 19:23, Vincent Hennebert wrote: >> I think I see your point. Basically you’re proposing a push method (a LM >> notifies its parent LM that it has a break-before) while mine is a pull >> method (a LM asks its children LMs if they have bre

Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-10-19 Thread gerhard . oettl . ml
Andreas L Delmelle schrieb: Triggering layout sooner is the only way we are ever going to get FOP to accept arbitrarily large tables, without consuming massive amounts of heap. It is little OT, but multipass would be another way - at the cost of runtime and diskspace/-access (if the memory f

Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-10-18 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Oct 18, 2007, at 19:23, Vincent Hennebert wrote: OTOH, the above is semantically equivalent to (I think we had already established that there should not be a double page-break here) If the LMs would be guaranteed to receive the 'normalized' form, the break-condition can be tested

Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-10-18 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Andreas, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: > On Aug 2, 2007, at 12:13, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > > Hi Vincent > > Hope you still remember this one. Sorry about the late reply. Still > catching up on some missed posts during the holidays. Hope you still remember this one. Sorry about the late reply.

Re: Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-09-16 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Aug 2, 2007, at 12:13, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Vincent Hope you still remember this one. Sorry about the late reply. Still catching up on some missed posts during the holidays. I’ve been thinking about the handling of keeps and breaks in tables for a while, and it seems to me that

Improving Keeps and Breaks

2007-08-02 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi all, Caution, long post ;-) I’ve been thinking about the handling of keeps and breaks in tables for a while, and it seems to me that improvements could be done in that whole area. I’ll use break-before as an example but what I’ll be saying applies to break-after and keeps as well. Currentl