Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-docs-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 9121 invoked by uid 500); 10 May 2003 14:38:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact docs-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: docs@httpd.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list docs@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 8983 invoked from network); 10 May 2003 14:38:37 -0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Malo Subject: Re: stuck with PDF creation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: TIMTOWTDI References: <20030509235437.65ed8a7d.jacek.prucia@acn.waw.pl> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:31:06 +0200 To: docs@httpd.apache.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Yes! X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N * Jacek Prucia wrote: > FOP has opinion of a "decent xml:fo engine". A lot of projects rely on it= 's > capabilities (including DocBook XML). This is because from programmer > perspective it allows (at least in theory) for simple and clean transitio= n. > Anyway, there's no point in using software that doesn't meet expectations= , > just because "it has cool concepts". Lets just fill some bug reports befo= re we > actually abandon the idea. These are all known issues. No need to bother the fop folks with it. They are currently redesigning and rewriting the whole software in order to achieve a better (i.e. full) support of xsl-fo. We can easily try it again later (but probably we won't, since we have a working system then). It's a pitty, yes. >> I'd suggest we take the other alternative, that was already proposed by >> Joshua (?): tex. I'm not familiar with tex (just started to learn ;-), b= ut >> IIRC here are some people who are. If some of you could create a concept= how >> to represent our docs in tex (or latex macros), it would be fine. I can >> easily contribute some XSLT, so that we can automate the way from xml to >> pdftex. >=20 > LaTeX/TeX for document creation is sort of a cannon against fly. Hehe, maybe. But it's known to work. > It's big, > pretty tricky to configure (even with texconfig) and takes a bit to learn= . Just downloaded the Miktex-package for win (took some days over ISDN :). > On > the other hand it's just the right tool for the job. You can achieve just > about any possible efect you could imagine. So if majority of people will= go > for TeX/LaTeX I'll try to help as much as my free time permits. Thanks. nd --=20 $_=3Dq?tvc!uif)%*|#Bopuifs!A`#~tvc!Xibu)%*|qsjou#Kvtu!A`#~tvc!KBQI!)*|~ tvc!ifmm)%*|#Qfsm!A`#~tvc!jt)%*|(Ibdlfs(~ # What the hell is JAPH? ; @_=3Dsplit/\s\s+#/;$_=3D(join''=3D>map{chr(ord( # Andr=E9 Malo ; $_)-1)}split//=3D>$_[0]).$_[1];s s.*s$_see; # http://www.perlig.de/ ; --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-help@httpd.apache.org