org.jfree.layouting.renderer.process.layoutrules

Class TextSequenceElement

public class TextSequenceElement extends Object implements InlineSequenceElement

Text in a line. A text item is special as it may shrink or stretch to better fit the line. If hyphenation is implemented, it may even split or change into a different text (this happens a lot in the german language).

Author: Thomas Morgner

Constructor Summary
	TextSequenceElement(RenderableText text)

Method Summary
long	getMaximumWidth() The extra-space width for an element.
long	getMinimumWidth() The width of the element.
RenderNode	getNode()
boolean	isPreserveWhitespace()

Constructor Detail

TextSequenceElement

public TextSequenceElement(RenderableText text)

Method Detail

getMaximumWidth

public long getMaximumWidth()

The extra-space width for an element. Some elements can expand to fill some more space (justified text is a good example, adding some space between the letters of each word to reduce the inner-word spacing).

Returns:

getMinimumWidth

public long getMinimumWidth()

The width of the element. This is the minimum width of the element.

Returns:

getNode

public RenderNode getNode()

isPreserveWhitespace

public boolean isPreserveWhitespace()