[reportlab-users] Widgets as Flowables...

[Robin Becker]

In article <op57NuAHztl9EwSS@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>, Robin Becker
<robin@reportlab.com> writes
>>OTOH, if we're doing 50 detailed plots inside a Platypus
>>paper for someone's thesis; and it has a table of contents
>>and may need 3 passes rendering, all Platypus needs to
>>know is the size of the enclosing Drawing.  It COULD hold
>>off drawing the things until the last pass when everything
>>is laid out.  That's one reason I like Drawings continuin
>>to exist in some fashion.
I forgot to say that preliminary research indicates that people are
using linear inequality solvers for the sizing problem. The approach is
indicated here

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary/

-- 
Robin Becker