Re: Crux of your design

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
is that this will cut down the memory requirements of properties in the FO tree. I should soon be able to tell whether this hope is realised, as I am beginning to build the FO tree, having developed solutions for almost all of the properties problems. My two minutes are up. Peter -- Peter B

Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
will be relative to these tag points. It's kinda messy, but it might just be feasible. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

area tree is serializable

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, Re your latest commits, could you comment on what you had to do to make sure area tree is serializable? I have been curious about aspects of the serialization of trees for some time now. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall

Re: Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Re some recent questions on this topic. As I understand it, creating a branch in the tree off an existing file set simply involves tagging the set of files with the new branch tag. From that point on, as long as a particular file remains unchanged

Re: Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
, really.) However, there are people who, as Victor has said, who find the all-or-nothing approach extremely difficult. If they can come up with practical ways of easing such difficulties, their suggestions should be carefully considered. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
. The methodological changes now being discussed are only possible because of that decision, strongly argued by Keiron, I believe. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

New xml-lang.xml

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
EnglishName CDATA #REQUIRED FrenchName CDATA #REQUIRED xml-lang.xsl is used to generate CountryLanguageScript.java, the class against which all new CountryType, LanguageType and ScriptType PropertyValues are validated. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
for want of love and attention. It's a real concern, made all the more real by the tenor of these suggestions. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
. If you took offence from the short attention span comment, I am sorry. No such offence was intended. The comment concerns the general approach to development that you mentioned. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: handling patches

2002-11-01 Thread Peter B. West
the old layout to the trunk, get that working and put the new layout in a branch. But it needs to be agreed upon. How difficult would this be? Would it be you who did most of this, or could you successfully direct others to assist? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Fwd: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors]

2002-10-30 Thread Peter B. West
that I could find: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=97951301002986w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=102011250524180w=2 -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Wondering about CVS branches

2002-10-25 Thread Peter B. West
of these is called FOP_0-20-0_Alt-Design. How can I find out about all of the branch names? Which branch is the default trunk? The upcoming 0.20.5 maintenance release? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Latest FO schema

2002-10-24 Thread Peter B. West
of that is to apply future changes directly. Have a look and let me know if anything needs fixing. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Latest FO schema

2002-10-23 Thread Peter B. West
+) since this one catches all of the mistakes that my team is likely to make. If anyone wants to take on the task of extending the schema with schematron asserts. Feel free. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
it works, but if you sure it's a better way to validate and wont overhead processing, I believe you :) So, do we decide to go this way? Other opinions? This is what is already happening in alt.design, but the structure is very different from the existing processing structure. Peter -- Peter B

Re: AW: Re: Bug 13699

2002-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
to write a testcase that runs multiple FOPs simultaneously to find out where the buggers are. Jeremias, What kind of FOPs are we talking about? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Bug 13699

2002-10-21 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias wrote: I'm planning to write a testcase that runs multiple FOPs simultaneously to find out where the buggers are. Jeremias, What kind of FOPs are we talking about? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-20 Thread Peter B. West
|%inline;|%block;)* ? This basically says, Anything, so it is also easy. Just get the next event and apply any special processing constraints, like checking for footnote and float in out-of-line areas. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-19 Thread Peter B. West
at run-rime. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintenance release

2002-10-16 Thread Peter B. West
of the first week of november as target date for the release candidate. Does your wife know about this? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e

Re: New Developer Suggestion

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
. - FO extensions Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
feasible to produce hebrew pdf using fop right now (well, under certain circumstances). -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
of the code and come back (privately) when I have some time. Patrick Andries (member of the Canadian character set committee translator for the ISO JT/SC2/GT2) http://hapax.iquebec.com -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: character

2002-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
namespace's constraints into the Format namespace. They are completely different expression environments, which is why it doesn't work. Has anyone else given this any thought? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: fonts

2002-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: My apologies for using up so much bandwidth. Victor, That's what it's there for. No apology required. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Vale property stacks

2002-10-04 Thread Peter B. West
, the storage overhead was too great. Requiescant in pace. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: character

2002-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
of length 1. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: character

2002-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Arved Sandstrom wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Peter B. West wrote at 30 Sep 2002 13:28:18 +1000: Tony Graham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 27 Sep 2002 16:44:32 -0300: ... That means -, #12235 , etc are characters, while '1

[Fwd: Re: Regarding your comment about string on xsl-editors]

2002-09-27 Thread Peter B. West
Original Message Subject: Re: Regarding your comment about string on xsl-editors Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:00:53 -0500 From: Paul Grosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: xsl-editors [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, Unfortunately

character

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
Fopdevs, Any comments on the representation and parsing of character type attributes would be gratefully received. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

[Fwd: Re: Regarding your comment about string on xsl-editors]

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
Original Message Subject: Re: Regarding your comment about string on xsl-editors Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:55:28 +1000 From: Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Grosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: xsl-editors [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul, Thank you

Re: character

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
: From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Fopdevs, Any comments on the representation and parsing of character type attributes would be gratefully received. This came up on www-xsl-fo, because Eric Bischoff and myself had the same question. Tony Graham says that character should

[Fwd: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors]

2002-09-22 Thread Peter B. West
just confused. Peter Original Message Subject: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:37:10 -0500 From: Paul Grosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, Thank you for your comment

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-21 Thread Peter B. West
remote monastery.) Peter Arved Sandstrom wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 20, 2002 9:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Style issues. [ SNIP ] The only encoding rule I'd realy like to have: Don't mix underscores

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-21 Thread Peter B. West
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Re: Line breaks around dashes

2002-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
knowledge we can assume about the characteristics of the text we are processing is what is contained in the database. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
, and I'd rather like to do something for FOP than fixing this. It comes down to ugliness, doesn't it? camelCase is nice. I haven't heard it before, and I agree with your admonition. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
. */ public FlowLayoutManager(FObj fobj) { Well, bad things happen. Good idea, but we can hardly go crook at anyone who misses something like this. However, if one is about to engage in a wholesale cp, it is probably worth asking, Is there a better way? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL

Re: FOP memory usage

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
a block and discover there is only one line on the new page, what do you do? The easiest way seems to be to steal a line from the previous page. ... Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Property handling

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Peter B. West wrote: More less than more, I should think. Parsing is inherently generic. E.g., I assume that you would use the same tokenizer and first-level parser. At the tokenizer level, sure. However, the spec provides for a wildly varying spectrum

Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
-0_Alt-Design branch for another approach. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL

Re: Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: J.Pietschmann wrote: And yes, it is absolutley choc-a-bloc with instancesof and casts, which, Should read absolutely chock-a-block; it is not to be confused with the consumption of chocolate. - Have a FONode method which goes through the attribute list and + gets

Re: Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
-parented. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Peter B. West
, everything in RTF can be expressed with text-only characters, and it would certainly be possible to convert XSL-FO to RTF using XSLT. Our choice to use java for the jfor converter was based on better availability of programming and debugging tools. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FOP Specialized Classloader: Request for Help #10379

2002-07-01 Thread Peter B. West
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Re: FOP Specialized Classloader: Request for Help (Was:RE: Fop andJDK1.2)

2002-06-30 Thread Peter B. West
thoughts on the matter, generate attachment to the RFE detailing them. If you have used bugzilla before, you will know what I mean. If not, take a look and refer any questions back here or to me. Peter Rhett Aultman wrote: Comments below. -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto

Re: Licence short or long

2002-06-27 Thread Peter B. West
is the key. as always -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: documentation for the maintenance branch

2002-06-27 Thread Peter B. West
is the status of the new FAQ? Christian -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licence short or long

2002-06-27 Thread Peter B. West
. Because a mini-chunk of the ASF is already here and as uninformed as the rest. :-) Seriously, though, I'll track down board minutes and see where this is explained, and report back. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: documentation for the maintenance branch

2002-06-27 Thread Peter B. West
Joerg, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously there is a need for some documention with normal releases. We don't need the design docs in the user releases, but all of the operational material, including the FAQs, is necessary. If we were to do source

Re: Fop and JDK1.2

2002-06-22 Thread Peter B. West
Christian, Just did it. New http://xml.apache.org/fop/news.html updated http://xml.apache.org/fop/status.html updated http://xml.apache.org/fop/design/alt.design/index.html Peter Christian Geisert wrote: Peter B. West schrieb: plans to use the News page on the web-site to maintain

Using bugzilla

2002-06-20 Thread Peter B. West
.) ?? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fop and JDK1.2

2002-06-13 Thread Peter B. West
in the release announcements could be collected there and serve as an immediate point of reference. Peter Christian Geisert wrote: Peter B. West schrieb: Ok, I'll try to explain. The standard fonts (times, courier etc.) are mapped fix to Java fonts (Serif, MonoSpaced etc. - which are actually

Re: Fop and JDK1.2

2002-06-12 Thread Peter B. West
regime for the following release. If AWT TT support was provided by some other means in 0.20.3, why don't we stick with that for now? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Fop and JDK1.2

2002-06-11 Thread Peter B. West
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Re: delay for release candidate

2002-06-10 Thread Peter B. West
. Removing any one of these fixes it, as does making the whole line a single basic-link. Trouble is, changing the links.merge default could break some documents with a very obscure error message. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Fop and JDK1.2

2002-06-10 Thread Peter B. West
font support from AWT viewer 3) Compile Fop with JDK1.3 (which will be done anyway) and state in the release notes that compiling with JDK1.2 and using truetype fonts in the AWT viewer does not work. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: Info on my efforts for the 0.20.4 release

2002-06-09 Thread Peter B. West
. Don't be alarmed. I have just done a clean install of Mozilla 1.0, and rebuilt my prefs.js file in the process. This simple action has cleared a couple of long-standing movemail bugs for me, including the loss of a .signature file. Isn't the 1.0 release a mighty achievement? -- Peter B. West

Re: header image of http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-09 Thread Peter B. West
at fop's index page looks rather bizarre - there is probably white FOP string at the right, but what I can see (mozilla1.0 or IE6) is only left bottom corner of letters FO. Can anybody else see it? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go

Re: delay for release candidate

2002-06-09 Thread Peter B. West
?id=9335 -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest Lord, to whom shall we go? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
to enable this. On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 19:29, Peter B. West wrote: As a result of this exercise, I remain as confused as ever. The most general sense of user agent seems to be fo processor. There are interactive user agents which may have user agent windows. User agents determine actual values

Re: Support for float

2002-06-04 Thread Peter B. West
Jason Foster wrote: I'm just curious, as I see messages talking about re-architecting, what the plans are for supporting the float element? I've searched the archives and couldn't find any substantive discussions on the matter. Jason, In spite of the lack of substantive discussion,

Re: [REDESIGN] configuration

2002-05-29 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, I can't comment on the details of this unless and until I look at avalon. I notice, though, that version is still given as a configuration parameter. Does that mean that a user can arbitrarily change the FOP version? My point, of course, is that version has nothing to do with

Re: Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-27 Thread Peter B. West
Bertrand, I started writing this before the flurry of messages in the last day or two, so it may now be redundant. If so, however, I have missed part of the conversation. My recollection of consensus of opinion some months ago was as I state just below. I think you will still have

Re: build changes

2002-05-25 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: If you really like a challenge, talk the other apache projects into using a standardised top-level directory structure with one doc, one src and so on :-) pietsch, Do I want more of a challenge than FOP? You must be joking. Ahh, I see that you are. Peter

Re: Keiron Liddle Elected To ASF

2002-05-24 Thread Peter B. West
Arved Sandstrom wrote: Hi, all I am very pleased to announce that Keiron has been elected to membership in the Apache Software Foundation, effective tomorrow (voting finished today). I'd like to be the first to extend my hearty congratulations. :-) Keiron, Let me be the third. Hearty

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Peter B. West
Arved Sandstrom wrote: -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ant is a cross-platform (by virtue of Java and XML) makefile system, basically, optimized for Java projects. Which is not new information. Sometimes we all lose sight of the fact that that is

Re: build changes

2002-05-23 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 05:46, Peter B. West wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? I am planning to throw a branch off HEAD

Re: build changes

2002-05-23 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:30, Peter B. West wrote: Are you *trying* to annoy me, or does it just happen? I don't want to jump to conclusions. Relax, I'm not trying to annoy you. Keiron, Thanks for that, and my apologies for the sharp tone. I have

Re: Running Prefligh PDF tools on PDF files produced by FOP

2002-05-23 Thread Peter B. West
Matt, Matthew, Maybe you could try generating the most minimal possible PDF file which still crashes the preflight programs. Use the same fo: source file in XEP and Antenna and compare the output. Send these PDF files to Enfocus ior Adobe for comment. If someone there can tell us exactly

Re: Next maintenace release

2002-05-21 Thread Peter B. West
Christian Geisert wrote: Ok, as a lot of people want a date for the next release I propose 1st of june as target date for the release candidate for 0.20.4 What do you think? Christian, OK by me. Anyone have any specifics he or she wants to get into the release? Peter

build changes

2002-05-20 Thread Peter B. West
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? I am planning to throw a branch off HEAD to tinker with at least the versioning information for the build. I would

Re: Identity crisis on cvs.apache.org?

2002-05-20 Thread Peter B. West
Joerg, Thanks. It seems there were some configuration changes in openSSH between versions. Peter J.Pietschmann wrote: I don't see anything unusual (Win2K, cygwin OpenSSH). It could be that your ssh client has changed default settings. My ssh uses known_hosts for storing identities,

Identity crisis on cvs.apache.org?

2002-05-18 Thread Peter B. West
Fopsicles, I have just gone through the usual upgrade agony of RedHat (7.0-7.3) with the added spice of a switch from Gnome to KDE after an abortive flirtation with Nautilus. Having paid my debt to society (or so I thought), I tried to perform a `cvs update' on the maint branch. I received

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-05 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, I agree that there is no need to tie the rendering to any particular model, as long as the results are equivalent. The discussions that span this list and the Xslfo-proc-devel list testify that there are many approaches to process of layout. However, if I am reading this correctly,

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-05 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, Again, I agree that, in the conceptual area tree described in the spec, blocks embedded in inline-area generating FOs in the fo tree (e.g., fo:inline and fo:basic-link), themselves embedded in a parent fo:block, do not bubble up to the same level as the parent fo:block. Going back to

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, Keiron Liddle wrote: I'm almost thinking of going a step further. Maybe we could add annotations to the spec to clarify these things with our understanding and then present this information. Yes indeed. And an index, including especially a concept index. It seems to me that

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, My apologies. I was just taking the opportunity to think aloud about aspects of the interaction between inline-areas and block-areas. Trying to make sense of the various elements of the spec leaves your ears buzzing. Peter Arved Sandstrom wrote: For the record, I disagree with

Re: properties

2002-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
Karen, I was your opinion that I was most concerned about on this one. I, for one, am quite happy to hold off to give you more time to make an argument. Part of my point was that it *was* in pretty good shape the first time around. Peter Karen Lease wrote: Not really. As a fairly

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-03 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron et al., Just a quick reaction to this - I'm off to sit next to the footpath reading the newspapers and drinking tea. From what I see here you are changing the shape of the tree. The motivation seems to be to make it explicit that block areas contained within an inline area must

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-05-02 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, This is a good idea. I half-heartedly suggested as much to Matthew Huggett when he asked what a non-programming technical writer might contribute. It requires too deep an insight into the spec, but he (or Cyril) may of some assistance to you. What would be even more generally useful

Re: Anything for a non-programmer to do?

2002-05-01 Thread Peter B. West
Matthew, I've moved this to fop-dev. Look over the documentation that we have (basically, the web site html) and see what you think. As a non-programmer, you will be mainly interested in the user perspective. How much of a non-programmer are you? If you can grok the code at all, your

Re: properties

2002-05-01 Thread Peter B. West
Hello devs. Does the near-silence on this one signify consent? Peter Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi Peter and others, What is the status of property handling? Are we going to go with Peter's suggestion and commit the java source to cvs and work on handling properties fully from there?

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-04-30 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: Karen, On 2002.04.29 22:39 Karen Lease wrote: It's certainly true that mixing blocks in inlines, as the spec says is allowed, gets very complicated. I remember some discussion of this on the list a long while ago and I think we actually asked the XSL editors what

fop 19

2002-04-30 Thread Peter B. West
Does anyone know what happened to fop 19? Did the tag go away? It does not show up in a cvs status of build.xml. I ask because the starting point for my code was 19, and I would like a point nearby to branch from for my initial migration. Peter

Re: [REDESIGN] Line layout manager discussion

2002-04-30 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, Firstly, thanks for taking the trouble to do this. Your diagrams make your argument beautifully clear, and facilitate discussion for everyone, even XSL spec novices. Even me, who struggles to follow text-only arguments. I haven't followed all of the posting yet, but one question

Notes available on web page

2002-04-29 Thread Peter B. West
Fop-devs, It appears that I do not have an account on daedalus yet anyway. Many thanks to the anonymous indivdual who re-published the web site. Although there are some niggling menu problems, my notes-in-progress are now, at least, available.

Time zones

2002-04-29 Thread Peter B. West
Rhett, You're only an hour away from Arved, so you may be OK anyway. Ft. Lauderdale Mon 10:27am +0 Halifax Mon 11:27am +1 London Mon 3:27pm +4 ParisMon 4:27pm +5 FrankfurtMon 4:27pm +5 Brisbane Tue 12:27am +14 Peter Rhett Aultman wrote:

Re: Time zones

2002-04-29 Thread Peter B. West
Rhett, Let's try again. You're only an hour away from Arved, so you may be OK anyway. Ft. Lauderdale Mon 10:27am +0 Halifax Mon 11:27am +1 London Mon 3:27pm +5 Paris Mon 4:27pm +6 Frankfurt Mon 4:27pm +6 Brisbane Tue 12:27am +14 Peter

[Fwd: Re: no more spam or virus but attack]

2002-04-29 Thread Peter B. West
Sirs, And this alternative response. Peter Original Message Subject: Re: no more spam or virus but attack Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:06:52 +0200 From: Martin Kraemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GOMEZ Henri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Fwd: Re: no more spam or virus but attack]

2002-04-29 Thread Peter B. West
Oops. Sorry about that. That was supposed to go elsewhere. Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: line layout commit

2002-04-28 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, See comments below. Arved Sandstrom wrote: 1. I can see a place for structured (that is, planned) communication: conference calls, scheduled meetings on a system like Peter describes, use of something like MSN Messenger, setting up an IRC channel and everyone getting together there. But

Editable image formats

2002-04-26 Thread Peter B. West
Developers all, I have taken to using xfig for my design diagrams, and I would like to include an editable form of the images in the CVS. xfig will export Postscript, Encapsulated Postscript, PDF, LaTeX, IBM/HPGL, T/PIC, CGM, but not SVG. Are any of those suitable for downline vector

Re: line layout commit

2002-04-26 Thread Peter B. West
K, K, A and other developers, Regular chat sessions would probably have been useful here, and I think that they might still be useful. Probably every interested party but me is in the time zone spanned by Keiron and Arved. Anyone in the US? It should be possible for you to arrange some

Insufficient Karma!

2002-04-26 Thread Peter B. West
Fop-devs, I just tried to commit a file I had added. Result: Access denied: Insufficient Karma (pbwest|xml-fop/docs/design/alt.design) cvs server: Pre-commit check failed It looks to have something to do with the avail file, and access to a resource called 'id'. Any ideas? Peter

Using CVS tags

2002-04-25 Thread Peter B. West
Fops, Some more comments on ways of using CVS tags. At present, we are using the trunk for ongoing development. We have a *branch*, fop-0_20_2-maintain, and a release tag, fop-0_20_3. Branch tags name a branch off the trunk (or off another branch.) Every version of every file on a branch

Lest we forget

2002-04-25 Thread Peter B. West
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them. Lest we forget. Anzac Day 25th April 2002 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Using CVS tags

2002-04-25 Thread Peter B. West
***WARNING*** Jars and class files checked into CVS must have their '-k' flag defaulted to 'o' - original value at checkin - to prevent corruption of binary files. I don't know whether this is critical for class files, but I would not treat them as binary files. Should read, ... but I

Re: Lest we forget

2002-04-25 Thread Peter B. West
Todd Pierce wrote: Clearly Peter B West is an Australian or New Zealander who should have been enjoying a public holiday. Why he chose to post this message to the FOP developers list, however, is a total mystery. Todd(.au), Surely not total? Peter

Re: build failure with J2SDK1.4

2002-04-23 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On 2002.04.19 11:55 Cyril Rognon wrote: Hi Fopers I have checked out the 0.20.3 with a -r fop-0_20_3 version tag (think that's the right thing to do to get the 0.20.3 release) Then I have uncommented the new method in src/org/apache/fop/svg/PDFGraphics2D.java

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