| /* |
| * Copyright 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. |
| * |
| * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
| * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
| * You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| * |
| * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| * limitations under the License. |
| */ |
| |
| /* $Id$ */ |
| |
| package org.apache.fop.layoutmgr; |
| |
| import java.util.List; |
| |
| /** |
| * 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); |
| |
| /** |
| * 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); |
| |
| } |