Re: Output Postscript and Plain Text from SGML

[s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz)]

Steve Roggenkamp writes:
 > > I need to batch convert a couple of thousand XML documents a day
 > > interchangeably to Postscript (XML-> Postscript)
 ...
 > I need excellent table and shading capabilities.

The TeX backend does not have excellent table support yet (though I
hope it will soon). shading - it depends what you mean.

If I had to do your job today, I'd write free-standing converters to
plain text and to native LaTeX, and write a good LaTeX style
file. Personally, I use David Meggison's excellent SGMLSpm Perl
library, but any system would do it.

Why PostScript and not PDF?

sebastian


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