Re: BTW

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 04:40 PM 11/24/00 -0000, Christopher Tipper wrote:
> >> And even though 3B2 may be very good for heavy duty newspaper typesetting,
> >> that's what's Hans is working on for ConTeXt as well. And once that's done,
> >> I am sure ConTeXt will do a better job on hypenation and justification than
> >> the ugly results we see in many of today's newspapers.
> >
> >Try it yourself guys! http://www.originalab.se/onlinebook/
> >
> >line-breaking sucks...
> 
> Well, after some java hacking it worked. Needs some applets. Actually, I do
> have a prototype running on our server, kind of choose your layout and get
> it sent thing. Never finished it. BTW, we do have a big two years old
> internal publishing on demand doc made in tex: select pages, it auto
> selects associated pages, send the fdf file to a server and get docs back.
> Unfortunately it's to big to upload, otherwise I would put it on our server
> since it's a nice demo of what tex could do a few years back already. Maybe
> i'll do it some time. [i need a kind of permanent connection for it] 

The first test I did with this kind of stuff is still online at this
URL:

    http://www.coe.uga.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ecashin/test/pdftest.cgi

We've been using this kind of dynamic document generation at the
University of GA College of Education for a couple of years now.  

Some examples are in this paper:

    http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/papers/workflow.pdf

Most of it is plain TeX coupled with MetaPost, but I bet ConTeXt would
give faster results than the online 32B demo.

-- 
--Ed Cashin                     PGP public key:
  ecashin@coe.uga.edu           http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/