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RE: About FO (was db2latex)
- To: MGutbier at ihs dot de
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:23:09 +0100
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <405CEFD3BE6BD51187BA0050DA3DFA580595A8@pcmail.ihs.de>
Matthias Gutbier writes:
> Is`nt it better to have an inadequate implementation with adequate results,
> than to to live with adequate implementations, which have not even
> rudimentary knowledge of typesetting basics ?
a moot point, but I incline to your view. obviously, since its me who
maintains the TeX implementations for DSSSL and FO...
> 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 don't entirely agree. They can just copy the algorithms of TeX if they like
(as they already do, for hyphenation)
Sebastian
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