Re: RFC: book parts

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 18 août 08 à 08:08, Joe Neeman a écrit :

> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 00:25 +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have taken advantage of this rainy week-end to work on an
> > implementation of book parts. I'd like to know whether this draft
> > patch qualifies as relatively simple, before going on polishing it.
> >
> > It introduces a level between book and scores, named bookparts, hence
> > the Book_part and Paper_book_part classes. Some functionality of the
> > former Paper_book has been moved to Paper_book_part, in particular  
> > the
> > processing relative to page breaking: page breaking functions deal  
> > with
> > Paper_book_part instead of Paper_book, but apart from the renaming of
> > parameters they have not changed.
>
> I've had a quick look through your patch and it all seems clear and
> well-structured. I wonder if it could be made simpler, though, by
> allowing Book and Paper_book to be nested arbitrarily (for example, by
> allowing their scores_ lists to contain (Paper_)Books in addition to
> what they already contain). Then you wouldn't need the extra classes.


Here is a new patch, with the same functionalities as the previous one
but using the nested Book/Paper_book appraoch. Indeed that seems
clearer.

nicolas

0001-Book-parts-nestable-book-parts.patch
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