Jade's RtfFOTBuilder

Subject: Jade's RtfFOTBuilder
From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:26:35 +0900
I've been looking at Jade's RTF backend recently and I discovered that the
RtfFOTBuilder class keeps, along with a few other stacks, a stack of page
formats (called pageFormatStack_).  But simple-page-sequences are always
top-level, so what's the point of this?  The start() and end() methods
include code of the form:

  if (!inSimplePageSequence_) {
    // push or pop the page format stack
  }

Under what conditions would you be formatting a flow object which is not
contained in a simple-page-sequence?  (...under RTF, of course --- I know it
can happen with HTML, for example.)  Furthermore, if you're not in a
simple-page-sequence, shouldn't the page format stack be empty?

-- FC



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