Subject: Re: a novice's question From: Stephan Albers <Stephan.Albers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:10:12 +0200 |
Sebastian Rahtz schrieb: > > anilia bruho writes: > > If anything, I would like to cast my ballot to vote for a complete set of > > programming features to be implemented in the XSL-FO standard. Do you think > > this is possible in principle, perhaps in a next version? > > I do not see how, because you are not asking for programming features, > you want a different model in which the FO processor is mandated to > have a two-way conversation with the formatter (ie you want to say "if > this, after typesetting, would be more than 4cm wide, do something > different"). that is a radical change of philosophy. >From our experiences, most print/publishing companies are working with tools like QuarkXPress, Framemaker.. where some things can be solved through a few lines of scripting and they have a direct visual representation. It's proprietary ... but it works. We have written a tool the takes XSL-FO into FOP, takes the original FO and the rendered tree and takes this into the publishing app. Have a look at the reply I just wrote to "DTP DTD"! > if two > formatters set "the cat sat on the mat" in Times Romran 12pt, the > results are not necessarily the same, because the algorithm to do the > default interword space may not be the same. typical font metrics (eg > AFM) do not contain this interword space parameter. Right, you'll never get 100% between the different formating/DTP systems. Hyphenation, spacing, kerning .. no chance. Same problem when going from FOP to DTP. > Detailed documentation of real-world designs which cannot be solved in > XSLT + FO would help everyone I'd love to see more of that, too. Stephan jCatalog Software AG XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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