Re: Hacking a temporary solution for Changing IPD

On 19 Jun 2009, at 15:46, Vincent Hennebert wrote:

> <snip />
> Until page breaking has been done you don’t know where the paragraph
> will be broken. So you don’t know how far in the element generation  
> you
> must go.

Not true. Until page breaking has been done, we don't know /exactly/  
where the paragraph will be broken, but that is not necessary. At the  
point where I would see the intervention, all the line-breaks for the  
paragraph have been computed, and the elements simply represent the  
line-boxes (+ possibly, spaces in between).
If we calculate the total content-height for those line-boxes, include  
a pessimistic estimate for the line-spacing, and compare that to the  
available height, we know that there will very, very likely have to be  
a break. More is not really necessary.


Regards

Andreas