Re: [xmlroff] Problems using libfo

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Dave Malcolm wrote at  5 Jul 2003 03:00:37 +0000:
 > I'm attempting to compile and link a program against libfo (using the
 > new xmlroff-0.2.3 tarball).
...
 > I've checked and the "datatype" and "area" header files haven't been
 > copied up into the installation directory - should they have been?

That's something that I haven't worked out yet: whether to expose all
the object types or just let everything be an FoObject or, at best, an
FoNode and let programs get at an object's properties using
g_object_get_property() (or whatever it's called).

I have added a new 'libfo-examples' package to the SourceForge site
that shows how to use the so-called 'basic' interface where your
program/library doesn't have to even know about GLib.

The 'xmlroff-libfo' example doesn't compile because I baulked at
making area-to-pdf.h an installed file since the stuff in
area-to-pdf.h is likely to be subsumed into a 'draw' method of each
object type.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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