[cl-typesetting-devel] More on laying out sub-boxes

[Ken McKee]

Marc Battyani wrote:
> "Ken McKee" <rkm101 at mac.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> If not, we can paginate the document ourselves. To do this  
>> (without falling back on cl-pdf) we will need to find the size of  
>> a block of content (a text-content?). In the end we might want to  
>> do this  anyway. We have some options to layout an item. For  
>> example, they can  be vertically or horizontally inclined. I can  
>> imagine that we would  use cl-typesetting's features to layout the  
>> text within each content  block, but our layout engine could  
>> adjust the options for the items  to avoid splitting items and  
>> subsections.
>
> Right now there is no "keep this as one block" option but you can  
> insert :eop to force a new page. So you just need to compute the  
> sizes of your blocks and then insert :eop where needed.
>
> To compute the height of a block something like this should work:
> (compute-boxes-natural-size (boxes (make-filled-vbox block-content  
> width 10000000 :top)) #'dy)
>
> Marc

Thanks Marc. That works.
Ken