At 05:12 PM 12/27/2001 +0000, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>Has anyone any experience with XSL-FO? Is it a standard that is
>far enough to be used in preparing print layouts? For example,
>does it have the same expressivity as ConTeXt? Would it be
>possible and meaningful to implement a ConTeXt backend for
>formatting objects? There are programs like passivetex; how
>easy would it be to implement something similar in ConTeXt?
>
>Any hints would be appreciated.
(also see berends reply)
afaik formatting object is like putting boxes together;
xml -> (with xslt) xml-fo -> tex -> pdf
in many cases (esp when dealing with documents) the xml-fo stage is not
needed at all;
so far i never ran into an fo, but i may some day as part of a doc (i can
imagine that for instance sub apps spit out fo's); in that case an extended
version of \framed is probably enough to implement it; when the moment is
there, i will probably cook up such an extended framed, but it's low on my
list of priorities [but you may expect much more xml support next year in
context]
taco may have more to say about this since he's working with fo's
Hans
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