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Re: About FO
* Matthias Gutbier:
> Typesetting demands for much more than producing a sequence of
> characters. It is the art of composing a type area. This needs a
> fundamental knowledge of fonts, page layout and other language
> depending issues. I personaly doubt that these native FO renderers
> will ever succeed in their balancing act between the overwhelming XSL
> spec. details and the art of automatic typesetting.
I agree, and being a (La)TeX user since a few years now, I cannot bear
to get a typesetting like the one produced by FOP. IMHO, TeX is the
best typesetting system I've ever seen, with high-quality results.
The only feature missing in JadeTeX is math. TeX typesetting of
equations is so beautiful! I tried the Mozilla MathML rendering, but
it's really ugly!
> And even if XSL and FO have the better future, the TEX DSSSL
> implementation is still more solid and easier to use for beginners, as
> Passivetex (even if I prefer Passivetex, but I have a programmers
> background).
I didn't test PassiveTeX yet, it isn't in the FreeBSD ports collection,
I'm just too lazy to download it and generate the TeX format files
myself... Is it as good as JadeTeX? What are the differences?
--
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
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