[cl-typesetting-devel] Non-macro interface to building documents.

[Peter Seibel]

"Marc Battyani" <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> writes:

> Marc Battyani <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> writes:
> 
> 
> >       (loop for (name tel age) in '(("Erik Enge" "555-1234" "25")
> >         ("Erik Enge" "555-1234" "25")
> >         ("Erik Enge" "555-1234" "25")
> >         ("Erik Enge" "555-1234" "25")
> >         ("Erik Enge" "555-1234" "25"))
> >      do
> >                           (typeset:row ()
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 "Name"))
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 name)))
> >                           (typeset:row ()
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 "Telephone"))
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 tel)))
> >                           (typeset:row ()
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 "Age"))
> >                             (typeset:cell ()
> >                               (typeset:paragraph ()
> >                                 age))))))))
> 
> Warning: the table are not multi-page so far. So you should use a
> table for each row if you don't want to have problems when the table
> height exceed the draw-block height.

So it seems that when a table is too big to fit in a page the
typesetting engine gets stuck in a loop, allocating more and more
memory. Unless someone's got a multi-page-table patch waiting in the
wings it might be nice to at least detect that condition and emit a
warning, giving up on the table?

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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