Re: PostScript?

Subject: Re: PostScript?
From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:15:15 +0800
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From: David Megginson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To do this well would take much work -- TeX produces
>publishing-quality output because is the result of two decades of
>development and refinement.  Unless you plan to embed TeX's
>composition engine into a Postscript/PDF backend, it is unlikely that
>you will have the time or resources to manage better than, say,
>Netscape's "Save As" Postscript output.

I'm doing it for FOP, my flow/formatting object to PDF converter, but it's
really just for the love of it (and a project in which to learn Python). I
plan to eventually use TeX-like algorithms for most of the formatting.

James
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