From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
Cc: ConTeXt ML <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: XSL-FO
Date: 27 Dec 2001 19:01:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vgesh796.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011227171201.GA1641@localhost>
Marco Kuhlmann <marco.kuhlmann@gmx.net> writes:
> 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?
On the last eurotex Simon Pepping presented a clear overview of
FO. From what I understood, is that FO comes into play after *all* the
formatting/typesetting has been done. For example FO doesn't generate
a table of contents, you have to do that yourself.
You can use FO to make things italice, do some paragraph typesetting
and such, but it doesn't look like TeX. All the macro stuff has to be
done before with XSLT.
--
Groetjes,
Berend. (-:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-27 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-27 17:12 XSL-FO Marco Kuhlmann
2001-12-27 18:01 ` Berend de Boer [this message]
2001-12-28 9:55 ` XSL-FO Hans Hagen
2001-12-30 12:03 ` XSL-FO Simon Pepping
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