Re: [NTG-context] Context against XSL

2004-10-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on and off implementing an fo engine (foxet) and run into fuzziness with regards to the specs (a bad omen is that that there i could not find a good manual and the ones i have are made up rather poorly, which indicated that we're

[NTG-context] Context against XSL

2004-09-30 Thread Dirar Bougatef
Hi, Does anyone have informations about tex macro packages and their advantages over XSL (previously known as XSL-FO) ? I have read somewhere that tex is a good implementation of the XSL standard ! I think this is in regard that tex thinks in matter of boxes (Which is the equivalent of XSL

Re: [NTG-context] Context against XSL

2004-09-30 Thread Dirar Bougatef
Hans Hagen wrote: Dirar Bougatef wrote: Does anyone have informations about tex macro packages and their advantages over XSL (previously known as XSL-FO) ? I have read somewhere that tex is a good implementation of the XSL standard ! I think this is in regard that tex thinks in matter of boxes

Re: [NTG-context] Context against XSL

2004-09-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Dirar Bougatef wrote: xsl is mostly a specification, and there are program soutthere that implement parts of is. The page model that xsl uses is not that advanced. Also, because you more or less make up the page, you also sort of disable all kind of clever things that batch processors like