On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Schatten wrote:
Peter Flynn wrote:
TeX systems are for formatting: you use them to typeset something
which was created/edited/stored/manipulated in (for example) XML.
Because of the way history happened, TeX preceded XML, so we have
a lot of legacy TeX. Sure
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On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:57, Andre Thenot wrote:
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 06:37 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
In any case
Peter Flynn wrote:
This has come up several times before. I agree completely: many people
want to use LaTeX to create PDF because it does a vastly
better job than any of the FOP systems.
nevertheless it is imho the completly wrong attempt. because FOP is not
ready for primetime, you suggest
nevertheless it is imho the completly wrong attempt. because FOP is not
ready for primetime, you suggest to put energy to integrate a legacy
system, that does not fit into the XML publishing process?? this sounds
weird to me. far better would be the idea to invest more energy in
enhancing
Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
I do not intend to be rude - but it might make sense if you learn a bit more
about what TeX is doing before you make such judgements.
thank you. I am working with LaTeX for nearly 10 years, so I know a
*little* bit about it. In fact, you may believe me, that *I* know
To make it short:
A TeXSerializer with a transformer delivering TeX text is not possible.
You must have SAX events in a pipe, not text. So the only option is a
TeXSerializer understanding XSL FO or a XML representation of TeX. But
this would already be very near to FOP.
Of course you can
A TeXSerializer with a transformer delivering TeX text is not possible.
You must have SAX events in a pipe, not text. So the only option is a
TeXSerializer understanding XSL FO or a XML representation of TeX. But
this would already be very near to FOP.
Of course you can encapsulate the XSL FO
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:27, Alexander Schatten wrote:
Peter Flynn wrote:
This has come up several times before. I agree completely: many people
want to use LaTeX to create PDF because it does a vastly
better job than any of the FOP systems.
nevertheless it is imho the completly wrong
A (hopefully) constructive suggestion.
There exist programs which implement XSL FO - PDF transformations using
TeX.
PassiveTeX is Open Source, the Unicorn software is not. If someone tries to
use them with Cocoon please let me know.
Cheers,
Andreas
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PassiveTeX
- PassiveTeX is a library of
Jestel, Roger B. (LNG-ALB) wrote:
Sometimes you can't avoid using legacy systems, and sometimes they are
even good, but that is unrelated to the question of how a third party
processor can be intregrated in a serializer.
Of course. And PDFs generated with TeX seem to provide much more quality
Roger wrote:
If your original file is XML and you have an xslt that
converts it into TEX
text, the output from the xslt is passed as a series of
character sax
events, so even though it is technically xml/sax events,
since there are no
elements or attributes, you can easily treat it
Le Jeudi, 12 juin 2003, à 03:49 Europe/Zurich, Conal Tuohy a écrit :
...In any case - isn't TeX a text format? If so then a well-formed XML
document like TeXblah blah blah ... /TeX could be serialised to
TeX by the TextSerializer, couldn't it?...
Or better, just write a serializer that is a
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 05:35 AM, Vasil I. Yaroshevich wrote:
I can make XML document such as
root
![CDATA[
LaTex document there
]]
/root
and I want to convert it to PDF. How?
Sure you can. But that defeats the whole purpose of using XML in
the first place. :-)
AS what would definitly be
Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
I think it's not in the the cocoon project's goals.
Why not? A good reason which I can see for such a component is that you
could use the features of TeX to automatically create printable pages with
high quality.
I cant get the point. Cocoon is an XML publishing
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:03, Alexander Schatten wrote:
Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
I think it's not in the the cocoon project's goals.
Why not? A good reason which I can see for such a component is that you
could use the features of TeX to automatically create printable pages with
high
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 06:37 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
In any case, it shouldn't be specific to LaTeX. All we need is an
ability of Cocoon to spawn an external process and serve the result
back to the user with a defined media type.
There's a _big_ problem with this: how do I apply a
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:57, Andre Thenot wrote:
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 06:37 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
In any case, it shouldn't be specific to LaTeX. All we need is an
ability of Cocoon to spawn an external process and serve the result
back to the user with a defined media type.
I think it's not in the the cocoon project's goals.
A project also exist :
http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/
Nicolas
Le mercredi, 4 juin 2003, à 19:41 Europe/Paris, Vasil I. Yaroshevich a
écrit :
Whether exists subj?
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I think it's not in the the cocoon project's goals.
Why not? A good reason which I can see for such a component is that you
could use the features of TeX to automatically create printable pages with
high quality.
Andreas
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Whether exists subj?
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Vasil I. Yaroshevich wrote:
Whether exists subj?
what should this be good for? tex is not XML and hence can not take part
in the Cocoon pipeline. To publish tex, you can use pdflatex and publish
the PDF directly.
what would definitly be useful is a tex generator, that generatex XML
out
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