From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3453 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: BTW Date: 25 Nov 2000 14:04:34 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <3A1E85E3.E5469CA6@gmx.net> <01d701c0562b$9a332740$a77c2ed5@arnhem.chello.nl> <3A1E8A25.ADECE397@gmx.net> <01ec01c0562d$79128db0$a77c2ed5@arnhem.chello.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001124183455.01557b40@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394184 17252 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:29:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Christopher Tipper" , "ConTeXt" Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:34:55 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3453 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3453 Hans Hagen 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/