On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 4 Feb 2015, at 5:47 pm, Edward Zimmermann <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Does this have anything to do with Corinthia? No. Corinthia is about > content and especially word processing formats (OOXML, ODF etc.).. > Corinthia is at its core about pragmatic fidelity. The point of the > bidirectional transformation model is to be able to reduce fidelity > demands. Unless the project wants to get sidetracked into HiFi rendering > (of DOCX or ODT) it's completely outside of the scope…. > > I think of PDF in the same way as I do PNG. It’s intended as an output > format, not an input format. I know there are tools out there which are > effectively half of an OCR system which can reconstruct a source document > by inferring the logical structure from the layout (e.g. where a paragraph > begins and ends), though this is quite a difficult problem and I’m not sure > that it’d be within the scope of Corinthia (though if someone has ideas on > this and wants to work on it, I’m all for it - it’s just a very difficult > and very different task to writing filters for all the other formats we’ve > discussed). +1 I think we currently have other more important tasks in corinthia. rgds jan i > > On the other side is output to PDF - that is, typesetting. This is > something I also think would be outside the scope of the project (at least > based on my understanding of people’s interests to date). We basically rely > on separate programs to do the typesetting of a document produced by the > library, e.g. LaTeX, WebKit/other browser engines. > > -- > Dr. Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://www.kellypmk.net/ > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
