Re: Where we headed?

On Sun, June 2, 2013 12:23 am, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> Just jogging the group. :-) Where are we at right now, what's next steps?

Thanks for the timely reminder: I've been meaning to post something but
obviously haven't got around to it.

My paper, "Decision making in XSL-FO formatting" [1], was accepted for
Balisage in Montreal in August, and the current feedback proof-of-concept
and the idea of adapting Saxon's event handler model make up half the
paper, so I'll be very interested in making progress on those once I
finish up my current client work (half of which provides another quarter
of the paper).

The proof of the proof-of-concept, as it were, would be to do multiple
iterations inside the one XSLT transformation, e.g., adjust font-size
until some text just fits the available area.  I haven't got around to
trying that yet, but anyone else is welcome to have a go at it.

Turning notions about event handlers into reality is a whole other level
of difficulty that I haven't started to look at yet.

One of the reviewers of my paper made the point that decision making is
ordinary in LaTeX, so I'll also need to spin up Speedata to provide a
point of comparison.

Quite separately, there's the "Publishing and the Open Web Platform"
workshop [2], for which you need to submit a position paper by 1 July if
you're looking for an invitation to attend.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://www.balisage.net/2013/Program.html#f1100l
[2] http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/

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