🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

I've written a custom JTextPane/DefaultStyledDocument class which needs to
have support for page breaks. These page breaks would only be visible at
print-time. So nothing should appear visually during runtime.

I came up with the following idea: add a custom Element class to the
Document named PageBreakElement. This would be an "empty" Element, no
AttributeSets, no Content etc. Then during printing i would scan for
instances of this Element and then skip to the next page.

The problem is that i have absolutely NO idea how to create such an Element
and how to insert it into the Document. I've got several books about the
swing text package (including the "Core Swing: Advanced Programming") but
they almost always skip the Element part (or at least don't go into it in
any detail). I know how "normal" insertion is done: insertString(int offset,
String test, AttributeSet attr) but how do i insert my own custom Element?

Thanks,

Jeroen