- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Oct 2002 17:02:04 +0100
- To: Éric Bischoff <e.bischoff@noos.fr>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:00, Éric Bischoff wrote: > > > XML DocBook + XSLT => FO => PDF > > > > You seem to have missed out a step here. what takes from from FO to PDF? > > FOP for example does it directly, doesn't it? yes. FOP is a typesetting engine. thats my point. FOP remains a bit unfinished > > the learning curve to learn what? you surely dont teach people to write > > XSL FO in an editor? > > Why not, sorry, if it matches some needs? yes, I am sure. but do you really say its easier to learn raw FO than LaTeX? > > > cryptic! and sometimes it is needed only because of the ageing software > > > architecture, like the static memory allocation techniques. > > > > hard to see where these are relevant, to be honest, in this area > > Burned IT time = lost money. er, not sure I grok this gnomic statement > Don't forget that not everyone has your deep knowledge of TeX customization, indeed. but I dont recall anything in eg PassiveTeX which forces me to confront TeX's memory handling -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
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