formatting rtf styles, page background, and other pb

[Franck delahaye <franck.delahaye@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

I'm currently in a survey phase for the developpement of a document
production system that needs to format the documents in rtf for the
customers.
I'd like to choose a DSSSL/Jade solution but I actually face a number of
problems, that I describe below.
I fear having to dive a long time in the DSSSL theory to find answers,
so, any experience and help is welcome.

Regards,

Franck
e-mail: franck.delahaye@xxxxxxxxxx

======the problems============

problem: style formatting capabilities
======================================
description:
I have SGML documents that I have to communicate to a customer that have
a WinWord based document system.
I manage my documents owing to a dtd in which I have defined, let's say,
common stuctures like:
        - <chapter>, <chapter-title>, <sub-chapter>, <sub-chapter-title>
        - <list> that may contain <list> or list-item
        - <table> that have table-row that have table-data
        - <paragraph>
        ...
My customer manages his document system owing to a WinWord  model with
the following styles:
        chapter-title, sub-chapter-title
        list-item
        table-data
        paragraph
So, he asks me to communicate rtf documents that use these styles.

question:
is it possible to generate such styles with DSSSL/Jade and if yes how ?

problem: external graphic in a table cell
==========================================
description:
I have an HTML document with an <IMG> (a logo) in table cell (<TD>),
I make an rtf output with jade, but the height of the rtf cell is not
correct (it is half of the height of the logo), and so I see just half
of the logo.

question: any solution ?

problem: page background
========================
description:
I would like to produce, from my SGML doc, an rtf document that have:
        a frame with visible 1pt thick borders as the page bakground,
        that surrounds the informations (text, tables, graphics) of each
page.
Typically, this could be done with WinWord by defining a page model
(.dot file), inserting in it a "text frame", resizing it up to the
correct
dimensions, and setting the borders with the desired thickness.

questions:
        it seems that simple-page-sequence does not provide the
materials for
this, does it ?
        I'm a little confused with page-sequence and page-model, flow
objects,
but is it the way ?
        ... any help is welcome.


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