The functionality provided by the Text Editing framework and the static text display mechanisms is designed to be appropriate for a majority of text formatting needs. However, if you want to create your own classes that deal with text layout and display at the line level, you can use the Line Layout classes directly. You should be familiar with the text storage and styling mechanisms, described in Chapter 2, "Character representation," and Chapter 3, "Basic text classes," before using Line Layout.
The text formatter provides a higher level formatting mechanism designed for use with editable text components. The Text Editing framework includes a formatter that creates formatted text based on a single fixed-width panel. In later releases of the CommonPoint application system, the Text Editing framework will provide more sophisticated control over text formatting options. If you want to create your own formatting engine, you can replace the Text Editing framework's formatter by implementing the abstract formatting protocol in TAbstractPanelFormatter.
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