Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates

[G Seshadri <SeshadriG@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The DSSSList Digest     Monday, December 20 1999     Volume 03 : Number 244



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     Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:50:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Nilsson <pnidv96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Brandon Ibach wrote:

> Quoting Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I wrote a DSSSL to describe the layout for my letters. Now, I would like
> > to be able to place the address of the recipient at particular x and y
> > coordinates on the paper in order to be able to use mail enveloppes with
> > a window.
> > 
> > I am using Jade with Tex backend to produce PS and PDF documents.
> > Is it possible and how? ;-)
> > 
>    There's no real straightforward way to do this, because DSSSL
> doesn't have support for absolute positioning.  However, assuming that

>DSSSL supports this, through the page-sequence. A page-model would be used
>with a page region for the envelope window. But, for now, this is only in
>theory, since Jade/JadeTeX dose not support the page-sequence flow object.

Does anyone support Jade ? I know there is something called OpenJade, but
are they adding support for more DSSSL features ? what about the back-ends
like MIF, who is doing the versioning? 

Seshadri


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