RE: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF?

Subject: RE: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF?
From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:15:19 -0500
Hi Sebastian,

Is Lout a Tex look like? where can get info on Lout?

Regards
Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.netfolder.com 

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[mailto:owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sebastian Rahtz
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 5:23 AM
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Subject: RE: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF?


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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