Subject: Re: (dsssl) Re: The Future of DSSSL From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:12:20 +0000 |
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:31:50PM +0000, Ian Castle wrote: > > However, in terms of implementation, the things that I am most > interested in would be support for the DSSSL page model on the input > side, and, on the output side, a PDF/PS backend (carefully skirting > round the role of TeX, jadetex etc)... I'd like a PDF direct backend too (might make me consider using DSSSL!), but there has to be a paragaph and page formatter *somewhere*. the XSL FO people have had to write their own from scratch, and they are not yet as good as the older ones like TeX (imho) > indeed be very good. The point being that for realworld use openjade is > quite "finished" so there isn't, from my perspective, too much that > needs to be done. so far as I can tell, there are a lot of people out there who use Docbook and Norm's stylesheets as a block box. Since the existing toolset renders that combination plausibly, they simply dont realize what they are missing :-} -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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