Hi Paul, > On 14 Feb 2018, at 23:14, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Vincent, > > having some experience with TeX I would implement CSS with macro-definitions… > Every element start would be a call to a macro that would check for rules > that would apply to its element, including passing parameters of their > ancestry.
Could you give an example of what you mean by macro-definitions? Is this something that exist in TeX? > However, I guess that your solution seems probably more ad hoc and more > practical. > > Is there any reason that you don’t use the XSL-FO renderer that use LaTeX? I > thought there were several of them. Do you have a pointer? As I said in my original mail I tried to search for an XHTML to LaTeX converter/XSLT but couldn’t. If you know of one, I’ll gladly have a look. Thanks a lot! -Vincent > > paul > > On 14 Feb 2018, at 21:01, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> I’m currently working on improving our TeX renderer (which is really a POC >> ATM), in an effort to see if it could be used to generate nice PDF exports >> (you generate LaTeX and then you convert to PDF). >> >> The main issue is that LaTeX doesn’t have any technology for applying style >> to it (like CSS has for HTML). In addition I wasn’t able to find any good >> HTML+CSS to TeX converter (as we have for PDFs with XSLT+FOP). >> >> So right now my idea is to implement some default behavior in the Tex >> Renderer (that could be configured globally in xwiki.properties and/or in >> the Admin UI) and give the ability to override specifically in the content. >> >> For example, imagine that you need to decide how to position table column >> content (left, centered, right) or whether the rows and/or columns of your >> table have vertical and horizontal lines (or other configs, autowrap, etc). >> >> The idea is that the Tex Renderer would support some custom tex-specific >> parameters. For example: >> >> (% tex-table-spec=“c | c | c" tex-table-floating="true" >> tex-table-caption="caption" %) >> |=A|=B >> (% tex-table-row-ending="\hline" %)|a|b >> >> (by default the table spec would be left aligned with vertical lines, and >> rows would be separated by horizontal lines). >> >> If you have some comments or ideas, please let me know. >> >> Inventing a CSS-like mechanism would just be too hard to implement IMO. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> PS: If you want to see table options in LaTeX, see >> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables
