From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16572 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context against XSL Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:20 +0200 Organization: Elvenkind Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20041001085220.26813ea0.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <415C1B8B.3030709@hotmail.com> <415C5937.5050900@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096613571 21687 80.91.229.6 (1 Oct 2004 06:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 06:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Oct 01 08:52:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CDHHS-0005Ms-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9BB12784; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19588-05; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F411E1276D; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927E61276D for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19574-06-2 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (unknown [194.159.73.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7861126F8 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:52:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:37724 helo=hal.chatalicious.net) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CDHHJ-00032o-PD for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:52:29 +0000 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <415C5937.5050900@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16572 Hans Hagen wrote: > I'm on and off implementing an fo engine (foxet) and run into fuzziness > with regards to the specs (a bad omen is that that there i could not > find a good manual and the ones i have are made up rather poorly, which > indicated that we're not so much dealing with high end typesetting, but > with regular batchprocessing of not too complex documents). The longer one has to read in the XSL-FO specification, the more one resents having to do so. If you are lookiing for a road towards creating pdf documents, then ConTeXt is like an actual freeway with perhaps a few potholes and missing roadsigns, where XSL-FO is a set of directions on how to create a jungle road, written down by a civil engineer with terrible handwriting mirroring a quite chaotic mind who nonetheless insists on doing everything "the right way"(tm). Various people have been busy trying to build that road according to the specifications, and some of the toll (payfare) roads are in fact reasonably close. I'm speaking with a certain fondness in my voice really, because I am also busy implementing a (commercial) fo engine using ConTeXt. Greetings, Taco