Re: [xsl] line-breaking and hyphenation in XSL-FO

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mukul wrote:

  Are FO
> implementation free to use TeX or possibly other
> typesetting standards? 

Yes. The details of line breaking and hyphenation are implementation 
dependent.

For example, a more sophisticated processor might be better at detecting 
and eliminating rivers and ladders than another. This is one area where 
two otherwise equivalent FO implementations might differ. There is a 
also a performance cost to doing more sophisticated line breaking, so 
different implementations may take different approaches in order to 
achieve different combinations of performance and rendition quality--if 
you're rendering invoices you probably don't care so much about the 
aesthetics of text layout but you may care about performance, but if 
you're producing books or magazines, you probably care very much about 
it and may be willing to accept slower processing in order to get it.

Cheers,

E.
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W. Eliot Kimber, eliot@xxxxxxxxxx
Consultant, ISOGEN International

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