Subject: Re: a DSSSL typesetter From: s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 22:39:44 +0100 |
Aleksandar Bakic writes: > Is anyone (a company or an individual) working on a typesetting > software that understands DSSSL specifications? I have been thinking > of learning TeX's internals and developing software that would produce > DVI files from DSSSL specifications. (I am not sure whether DVI format > can support all what is in DSSSL, but plan to find out.) My preferred I don't see any problem with dvi supporting DSSSL flow objects, since its very very low level, but you'd have (of course) to write a complete paragraph and page layout engine. This would have to be as complex as TeX. Some suggestions: - if you want to write to a low-level format, PDF is probably much more useful than dvi - you can use the Jade DSSSL processor and its TeX backend, and work with the jadetex macros to process the result - you could work on the lout backend for Jade, and use lout as your typesetter My gut feeling is that TeX (or better, its Unicode-using child, Omega) is *almost* able to deal with all the theoretical requirements of DSSSL, but I would not put money on it. Until someone writes a DSSSL engine that implements the entire spec, its hard to find out. Sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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