Re: html to dsssl ?

Subject: Re: html to dsssl ?
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:29:08 +0100 (BST)
> The best solution and the fastest also is:
> scenario 1:
> a) transformation from SGML/XML into Tex
> b) rendition in techexplorer
> 
> scenario 2:
> a) transformation from SGML/XML into PDF
> b) rendition in Acrobat

> Scenario 1 and 2 are a lot faster.

It depends what you mean by faster:-)

if you mean taking the current back end output into techexplorer
it doesn't do anything at all, so how fast it does it is not really an
issue. (otherwise, I'm not sure what you do mean).

For scenario 2, I am not sure what is your back end that goes straight to
pdf, if you mean one that does not yet exist, I am not sure why it has
to be faster.

TeX is not particularly slow, something going to pdf may take as long as
pdftex, or may just not spend as long making decisions and so make
poorer output. Of course it may be faster and better, but unless it
actually is working for us to try it out, I don't see why _in principle_
building a pdf back end into jade is faster than running pdftex over the
tex output.

David


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