Beginning typesetter

cpdftype.ml

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-(* cpdftype.ml *)
+(* A typesetter for cpdf. A list of elements is manipulated zero or more times
-type box =
+   to lay it out, paginate it, and so on. It is then typeset to produce a list
-  Text of string
+   of pages *)
-| Glue of float
-| Newline
-| Font of string
-| BoldOn
-| BoldOff
-| ItalicOn
-| ItalicOff
 
-type t = box list
+(* Text is represented as a list of unicode code points *)
+type text = int list
 
-let typeset papersize boxes =
+(* Glue *)
+type glue =
+  {glen : float;
+   stretch : float}
+
+(* Main type *)
+type code =
+  Text of text
+| HGlue of glue
+| VGlue of glue
+| NewLine
+| NewPage
+| Font of Pdftext.font
+
+let indent x = HGlue {glen = x; stretch = 0.}
+let newpara x = HGlue {glen = x; stretch = 0.}
+
+type t = code list
+
+let of_utf8 = Pdftext.codepoints_of_utf8
+
+let example =
+  [Text (of_utf8 "Jackdaws love my Sphinx of Quartz. And this, this is the second sentence to provoke a line-break.");
+   newpara 10.;
+   indent 72.;
+   Text (of_utf8 "The second paragraph");
+   NewPage]
+
+(* Typesetter state. Origin at top left of page *)
+type state =
+  {mutable font : Pdftext.font;
+   mutable xpos : float;
+   mutable ypos : float}
+
+let initial_state () =
+  {font = Pdftext.StandardFont (Pdftext.TimesRoman, Pdftext.WinAnsiEncoding);
+   xpos = 0.;
+   ypos = 0.}
+
+(* Split text into lines, resolve all hglue stretches to 0, remove Newlines. *)
+let layout lmargin rmargin papersize i =
+  i
+
+(* Resolve all hglue stretches, insert NewPage as needed. *)
+let paginate tmargin bmargin papersize i = i
+
+(* Split on NewPages, typeset each page, add font dictionaries *)
+let typeset papersize i =
   [Pdfpage.blankpage papersize]
+

cpdftype.mli

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-(* Simple typesetter *)
+type text = int list
-type box =
-  Text of string
-| Glue of float
-| Newline
-| Font of string
-| BoldOn
-| BoldOff
-| ItalicOn
-| ItalicOff
 
-type t = box list
+type glue =
+  {glen : float;
+   stretch : float}
+
+type code =
+  Text of text
+| HGlue of glue
+| VGlue of glue
+| NewLine
+| NewPage
+| Font of Pdftext.font
+
+type t = code list
 
 val typeset : Pdfpaper.t -> t -> Pdfpage.t list