Fwd: Re: Comments on AbiWord layout engine (fwd)

From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 10:44:29 EDT

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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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