Re: About columns?

[Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Matthias answer:
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> The trick here would be to implement page-sequence and column-set-sequence.
> Unfortunately, nobody found it yet...
> 
> Didier says:
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> I agree that this would be a solution and that this solution is not
> necessarily obvious. Speaking more particularly of the way to implement
> column-set-sequence, Nisheet (Netscape) reminded me that a non standard
> feature in Mozilla allows colum rendition. It may (I just said may) be
> possible to implement the colum-set-sequence object with the Mozilla column
> rendition object. However, when I tried on paper a complex layout with
> page-model and column-set-sequence, the Mozilla engine, even using the area
> object (i.e. a CSS box object) is not sufficient. Now the question is: up to
> where the DSSSL visual object model is implementable with current Open
> source rendition engines. I someone has any answer please stand up. For my
> part, I am at the beginning of my exploration.


I guess the jades nonstandard ICs for column rendition pretty much cover
the possibilities.

> 
>  Off course, in that case, the possible rendition capabilities are with the
> Mozilla rendition objects (all objects are based on the block CSS model). To
> fully use the rendition capabilities of the engine, this would require us to
> fully implement the html backend and add new characteristics (like for
> instance background-color)

It may be simpler to write a new backend that directly goes  
FOT->Mozilla rendition objects. But improving the html backend would
of course still be a laudable project.


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