From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 10:44:29 EDT
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:32:34 -0700
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From: David Bolack <dbolack@tulsa.net>
Subject: Re: Comments on AbiWord layout engine (fwd)
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>A very early version of the AbiWord layout engine was capable
>of flowing text into a circle. It was cool, but it didn't
>survive beyond the next rewrite. :-) Still, if I was trying
>to design a second-generation layout engine for AbiWord, I
>would at least try to consider non-rectangular containers as
>I designed the space-negotiation protocol between containers
>and subcontainers.
Once you get into this you are beyond word processinfg and into page layout.
Not that I have a single problem with that. :)
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