Subject: Re: [xsl] LaTeX -> RTF, is XSLT the right tool? From: Antonio Gallardo Rivera <agallardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:54:21 -0600 |
Another very nice format is OpenOffice.org format. Also, there are many import/export features: More info: http://xml.openoffice.org/ Also a way to convert documents from OpenOffice.org to Latex: http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ Antonio Gallardo El Jueves, 24 de Octubre de 2002 13:15, MindFuq escribió: > * bryan <bry@xxxxxxxxxx> [2002-10-24 18:40]: > > So the question is: Did you indeed find it to be either faulty(by not > > handling these details), process intensive(by handling these details), > > neither of the above because you in some way structured your markup or > > pre-processed it so as to remove this problem, or four not an actual > > problem because the chance of such a thing occurring was negligible? > > > > If four can you tell me how often the RTF conversion is used, types of > > documents used with etc. > > I'm not sure exactly what details you're referring to. I merely wrote > something small that would take some xml data (specifically, > information about a software test), and output a table in RTF. > > It was kind of painful. RTF is the ugliest open standard format I've > ever encountered. Word doesn't handle RTF that it didn't produce very > well. One of the biggest headaches was when Word would constantly > crash or produce a screwed up table, when the RTF was solid and > complied with the spec. It turned out that Word didn't like trailing > whitespace at the end. A single whitespace took me hours to > troubleshoot. > > But in the end, it was nice.. and worked well. I'm afraid to attempt > to write something larger.. like something that will process an entire > document. There are so many pitfalls to expect with RTF. > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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