The Horizontal Splitter Algorithm of the Content-Driven Template- Based Layout System

We live in an information consumer society; day by day people consume lots of digital content. The reason behind it is that almost all of us have mobile devices that support web browsing, multimedia, and reading different document formats, like HTML, ePub or PDF files. Based on the current trends we can say that tablets are going to be dominant consumer devices. The diversity of the tablets and tablet screens require adaptive layout solutions that utilize the different device capabilities. This paper discusses the Horizontal Splitter Algorithm of the Content-Driven Template-Based Layout System (CTLS). The CTLS is a templatebased online magazine layout approach with a unique property: the automatically created magazine layout is driven not only by templates and device properties but also by the actual content. The Horizontal Splitter Component of the approach facilitates to place layout elements one below another and calculate the resulting adaptation method. This paper discusses the equations related to different layout elements and introduces the way how the splitter component derives the resulting adaptation method based on the equation forms of the contracted layout elements. As a result the approach can handle hierarchical templates in an efficient way. Key-Words: Adaptive Layout, Content-Driven Layout, Template-Based Layout, Online Magazine Layout.