Flowing into regions

func (cb *CSSBuilder) FlowText(te *frontend.Text, r Regions) error

type Regions interface {
	// Next returns the region to fill: once before the first block, then
	// only when the content moves on. brk is "" for an automatic break, else
	// the forced break-before or break-after keyword that caused it (page,
	// column, left, right, …).
	Next(brk string) (Region, error)
	// Filled hands back every region exactly once, the last one included,
	// before the Next that follows it. When FlowText returns an error, the
	// region it was filling is not handed back.
	Filled(f Filled) error
}

type Region struct {
	// Width and Height are the size of the rectangle.
	Width, Height bag.ScaledPoint
	// MarginBefore is the margin still open above the region, such as the
	// MarginAfter of a flow this one continues. It collapses with the first
	// block's margin-top in the first region and in a region after a forced
	// break. After an automatic break the margin at a region's top is
	// truncated (CSS Fragmentation 3 §5.2), so it is not used there.
	MarginBefore bag.ScaledPoint
	// PageNum is the 1-based number of the caller's page the region lies
	// on: headings and anchors take their page from it, and inside/outside
	// floats their side, odd being right. 0, the zero value, counts as an
	// even page, so a region that leaves it unset lies on a left page.
	PageNum int
	// Left and Top are the region's top-left corner in PDF coordinates on
	// the caller's page, where the caller places Filled.Box. Heading
	// positions for the outline are computed from them.
	Left, Top bag.ScaledPoint
}

type Filled struct {
	// Box is the region's content, to be placed at the region's top-left
	// corner. Box.Height == Used.
	Box *node.VList
	// Used is the height from the region's top edge to the bottom edge of
	// the last box in it, or of a side float that reaches further. It
	// exceeds the region's Height when a box too tall for the empty region
	// is placed in it anyway.
	Used bag.ScaledPoint
	// MarginAfter is the margin below the last box, as far as it reaches
	// below Used: the last block's margin-bottom at the end of the flow,
	// the margin spent at the foot of the region at an automatic break.
	MarginAfter bag.ScaledPoint
	// Fragments lists the parts of the flow's children in the region, top
	// to bottom.
	Fragments []Fragment
}

type Fragment struct {
	// ID is the child's id attribute, "" without one.
	ID string
	// Index is the child's position among the flow's children. Loose text
	// between blocks counts as an anonymous child of its own.
	Index int
	// Top is the fragment's top edge, measured from the region's top edge,
	// and Height its height, both without the child's margins.
	Top, Height bag.ScaledPoint
	// Continued is set when the child began in an earlier region, Continues
	// when it goes on in the next one.
	Continued, Continues bool
}

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "strings"

    "github.com/boxesandglue/boxesandglue/backend/bag"
    "github.com/boxesandglue/boxesandglue/backend/document"
    "github.com/boxesandglue/boxesandglue/frontend"
    "github.com/boxesandglue/htmlbag"
)

// columns hands out two columns per page and places each filled column
// on its page.
type columns struct {
    doc    *document.PDFDocument
    page   *document.Page
    col    int // column on the current page, 0 or 1
    pageno int
    cur    htmlbag.Region
}

var (
    margin = bag.MustSP("15mm")
    gap    = bag.MustSP("5mm")
)

func (c *columns) Next(brk string) (htmlbag.Region, error) {
    // A forced break other than column (page, always, left, ...) starts a
    // new page, as does the end of the second column.
    if c.page == nil || c.col == 1 || (brk != "" && brk != "column") {
        if c.page != nil {
            c.page.Shipout()
        }
        c.page = c.doc.NewPage()
        c.pageno++
        c.col = 0
    } else {
        c.col++
    }
    width := (c.page.Width - 2*margin - gap) / 2
    c.cur = htmlbag.Region{
        Width:   width,
        Height:  c.page.Height - 2*margin,
        PageNum: c.pageno,
        Left:    margin + bag.ScaledPoint(c.col)*(width+gap),
        Top:     c.page.Height - margin,
    }
    return c.cur, nil
}

func (c *columns) Filled(f htmlbag.Filled) error {
    c.page.OutputAt(c.cur.Left, c.cur.Top, f.Box)
    for _, fr := range f.Fragments {
        fmt.Printf("page %d column %d: child %d %q at %s, continued %t, continues %t\n",
            c.pageno, c.col, fr.Index, fr.ID, fr.Top, fr.Continued, fr.Continues)
    }
    return nil
}

func main() {
    fd, err := frontend.New("columns.pdf")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fd.Doc.DefaultPageWidth = bag.MustSP("148mm")
    fd.Doc.DefaultPageHeight = bag.MustSP("210mm")

    cb, err := htmlbag.New(fd, htmlbag.NewCSSParserWithDefaults())
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    if err := cb.AddCSS(`body { font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt }`); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    para := strings.Repeat("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ", 40)
    te, err := cb.HTMLToText(`<html><body><h1 id="intro">Two columns</h1><p id="text">` + para + `</p></body></html>`)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    cols := &columns{doc: fd.Doc}
    if err := cb.FlowText(te, cols); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    cols.page.Shipout()
    if err := fd.Doc.Finish(); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}