Subject: RE: About the paragraph object. From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:35:59 -0400 |
Hi Frank, Thanks, I forgot to mention the "inlines" objects you mention. I upgraded my mental model, and do modification on the paragraph object document. I already did some additions this morning (at early hours) like including more explainations and illustrations on "Area" and "Area containment" concepts. I am actually working more on the visual model. Later on, with the help of Peter Nilson, I'll include the "tactile" model. What's missing now is an "aural" model ;-) By the way, what is your suggestion on how to illustrate a "port". regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netfolder.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frank A. Christoph Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:50 AM To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: About the paragraph object. Didier wrote: > Secondly, My own mental model about the Paragraph object is that > this latter > can contain "sequence" objects. <question> is there any other formatting > objects that could be contained in a paragraph object?</question> Ah yes, I was going to comment on this. You can wrap a sequence object around anything; it's only useful for packaging things up as an alternative to sosofo-append, and for specifying inherited characteristics without specifying a flow class. It just happens that the latter is useful for specifying font-size:, etc. when you have a sequence (non-technical usage) of character objects. You can even wrap a sequence around a simple-page-sequence and, in fact, as I recall Jade always does so in order to implement the declare-initial-value primitive. A paragraph object accepts any kind of object in general. Whether the backend will do anything useful with it is another question. For example, aside from just characters, you could flow a paragraph into a paragraph. Since a paragraph is supposed to format display objects which become children by prefixing them with a break, this will actually produce what appear to be (at least) two paragraphs. What things besides characters can you flow into a paragraph without introducing a break? Any inline object. For example, a line-field; an external-graphic with display?: #f; in general, even a display object, provided you wrap it with an included-container-area with display?: #f. --FC DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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