[9fans] Re: Réf. : Re: [9fans] mothra

["Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>]

> sed | tbl | troff
> 
> you see the way i'm thinking?

Yes..  Now how do you draw a line from
the end of the troff pipe back into tbl in
your diagram?  You need the full power
of the layout engine available to the table
processer, as sizing depends on the layout
of nested tables in a very insidious way.
and the real fun begins when a cell is allocated
a certain width, and the contents don't fit.
Or when the various width and pad specs
of the whole nested set of tables are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously.
Then you have to "give up" in exactly the
same way as Netscape and IE...
(I seem to have the phrase burned on
my brain, don't I?)
And then try to handle images of unknown
size arriving later, and try to minimize the
number of unnecessary trial layouts.

Most of my layout bugs were due to
tables.

- the fool