RE: About the paragraph object.

["Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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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


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