src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/inline/InlineLevelLayoutManager.java

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/* $Id$ */
 
package org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.LayoutManager;
import org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.Position;

/**
 * The interface for LayoutManagers which generate inline areas
 */
public interface InlineLevelLayoutManager extends LayoutManager {

    /**
     * Tell the LM to modify its data, adding a letter space 
     * to the word fragment represented by the given elements,
     * and returning the corrected elements
     *
     * @param oldList the elements which must be given one more letter space
     * @return        the new elements replacing the old ones
     */
    List addALetterSpaceTo(List oldList);

    /**
     * Tell the LM to modify its data, removing the word space 
     * represented by the given elements
     *
     * @param oldList the elements representing the word space
     */
    void removeWordSpace(List oldList);

    /**
     * Get the word chars corresponding to the given position
     *
     * @param sbChars the StringBuffer used to append word chars
     * @param pos     the Position referring to the needed word chars
     */
    void getWordChars(StringBuffer sbChars, Position pos);

    /**
     * Tell the LM to hyphenate a word
     *
     * @param pos the Position referring to the word
     * @param hc  the HyphContext storing hyphenation information
     */
    void hyphenate(Position pos, HyphContext hc);

    /**
     * Tell the LM to apply the changes due to hyphenation
     *
     * @param oldList the list of the old elements the changes refer to
     * @return        true if the LM had to change its data, false otherwise
     */
    boolean applyChanges(List oldList);

}