On 4/25/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
This is interesting stuff, but it seems to me that the "right" way to architect such a feature following X3C recommendations, would be to produce xsl-fo either directly from the wikitext, or by transforming the XHTML version, and then produce pdf from the XSL-FO using Apache FOP, or a toolchain like passivetex.
I was pretty frustrated with FOP when I tried it a year or so ago; lots of features were unimplemented or required weird workarounds.
Is it better these days?
I don't know, I haven't tried it myself. There are alternatives like going via LaTex using passivetex. I do think that XSL-FO is the right architecture, it just needs the right implementation.
-- Rick DeNatale
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