From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6417 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XSL-FO Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:55:41 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011228104722.03ee6ae8@server-1> References: <20011227171201.GA1641@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396948 10425 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt ML Original-To: Marco Kuhlmann In-Reply-To: <20011227171201.GA1641@localhost> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6417 At 05:12 PM 12/27/2001 +0000, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > Hi all. > >Has anyone any experience with XSL-FO? Is it a standard that is >far enough to be used in preparing print layouts? For example, >does it have the same expressivity as ConTeXt? Would it be >possible and meaningful to implement a ConTeXt backend for >formatting objects? There are programs like passivetex; how >easy would it be to implement something similar in ConTeXt? > >Any hints would be appreciated. (also see berends reply) afaik formatting object is like putting boxes together; xml -> (with xslt) xml-fo -> tex -> pdf in many cases (esp when dealing with documents) the xml-fo stage is not needed at all; so far i never ran into an fo, but i may some day as part of a doc (i can imagine that for instance sub apps spit out fo's); in that case an extended version of \framed is probably enough to implement it; when the moment is there, i will probably cook up such an extended framed, but it's low on my list of priorities [but you may expect much more xml support next year in context] taco may have more to say about this since he's working with fo's Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------