Re: PDF backend for (Open)Jade

["Christof Drescher" <drescher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthias,

> > The backend (called fot2pdf) is written in JAVA and can be used on most
> > platforms easily. It is deliberately NOT to be included in the standard
> > OpenJade source tree, but runs separately taking the generated FOT file
> > as input. The backend has been used to produce several documents now
>
> This, however will be a problem for implementing features which
> require bidirectional communication between the backend and the
> style engine, like indirect sosofos.

As you can assume, I'm fairly familiar with the "standard" flow objects
appearing in the DSSSL fot. The sosofos do never come up to this point, and
as I thought, the formatting backends need to render the contents of the
fot.

What is meant by "indirect sosofos" then? And in what way would the
implementation require bidirectional communication?

Thanx,
Christof



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