Subject: Re: Update to documentation
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 04:59:45 CDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <leonardr@lazerware.com>
To: "Karl Ove Hufthammer" <huftis@bigfoot.com>; "Abiword Developer List"
<abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Update to documentation
At 8:50 PM +0200 10/23/00, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>>> Committed. Your XML work sounds quite cool. How are you planning to
>>> generate PDF files? The way I would immediately think would be XML
>>> source-> XSL-FO stylesheet -> PDF/TeX. What's your plan?
>>
>>We will use XML --> XSLT (not FO) --> LaTeX --> PDF.
>
> If you're going to introduce an extra step in there (LaTeX),
> as opposed to using XSL-FO's and something like FOP
> (<http://xml.apache.org/fop/>), then why go with LaTeX instead of
> HTML? I wouldn't expect the output to be all that much better in
> this case, would you?
*Instead* of HTML? We'll have both PDF and (X)HTML output. Perhaps even AbiWord
output.
> And if you're going LaTeX, are you using pdfTeX or something else?
pdfLaTeX, yes.
>>I don't know much about XSL-FO, and this seems much simpler and easier.
>>
>Too many steps, IMHO...
"Too many", in what way? What is the disadvantage of doing it this way?
We only have to run a simple script (a DOS batch file actually), and the LaTeX
and PDF documents are automatically generated. See <URL:
http://home.no.net/huftis/abiword/english/files/abihelp.pdf > for an example of
how the finished product could look.
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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