RE: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF?

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josep Vela writes:
 > You may obtain pdf from SGML using a DSSSL that generates Lout. Lout is
 > simple than TeX.
 > A Lout driver for jade will be better, but nobody's perfect. B-)

If you mean to use the DSSSL direct formatting objects to write raw
Lout, as the Docbook HTML  does, you lose half the advantages of
DSSSL. If you write a Lout backend to Jade, you meet all the same
problems as the TeX backend has. The fact that Lout probably *is*
simpler than TeX is very likely to be unimportant.

I to agree that a neutral page formatter embedded in Jade would
be fun, and very useful. But a distinctly non-trivial task. 

Sebastian


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