Re: About the source library

Subject: Re: About the source library
From: Glauber Ribeiro <glauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:31:28 -0500
Hello, Matthias,

thank you for the clarification. I think things that are usable in real
life should have the priority. If complex page models are not going to
work with the software that's available, they probably should be left
for later.

Glauber

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well, reading the recent emails about patches, i had the impression that
> > one of the posters mentioned he had implemented most of the DSSSL spec.
> > I  may have read more than what was there.
> 
> I think you refer to my mail, but I only claimed to have completed
> the expression language (ie the "scheme" part of dsssl).
> 
> > I'm not sure about complex page models, being new to DSSSL. Is this
> > something that could be incrementally added to Jade?
> 
> With complex page models, the problem will not only be adding them
> to jade (complicated enough), but to find  a formatter that can actually
> produce output according to the spec. TeX won't do it (unless you invoke
> that old turing machine argument).
> 
> Matthias
> 
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