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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:19:37 +0000
From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk>
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Hello all,

Working on the galley model, I'm slowly constructing things in xgalley. 
I've mentioned some of these before, but I think it might be worth 
saying them again.

  - In xgalley, I've put the code very much "out of order" with the idea
    being to use the self-documenting template format. Whether this
    really works I'm not sure. I'd be interested to hear what others
    think.

  - On the question of "choice" versus "boolean", I'm currently favouring
    using "boolean" if true/false is the only sensible input. I think
    overall this is clearer than using "choice", even if it means having
    some variables which aren't strictly needed.

  - I'm currently being somewhat flexible with the original names for
    keys (I guess Frank's choices). I'm trying to work out what is
    needed. For example, in the "hyphenation" type, galley2 has keys
    such as "hyphen-enable-boolean". I'm favouring just "enable", with
    the fact that it applies to hyphenation obvious from the object type,
    and the fact its a Boolean from the interface (also "enable" seems
    to me to demand "true" or "false").

Currently, I'm working on things in galley2 which are "low impact" (such 
as hyphenation). I'm still working out how to tackle the main mechanism 
(I'm still not sure I'm 100% clear on it all).

Joseph
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