Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-10 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : Oleg Tkachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, you right about jdk1.3 - it remains to be seen, another alternatives could be our own TR9 implementation (afaik renderx guys went this way last summer, probably because they have to support jdk1.1 and ms jvm) or some

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-10 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 10 oct. 2002 20:40 Patrick, I'm just trying to determine the limits. At the moment 1.3 is needed to compile, because of TrueType font support, although users may continue to run the results in their existing 1.2

Progress report on FOP 1.0 ?

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
When last updated, on the 10th of June 2002, it was stated that the development effort is roughly 35% towards a developers release. May I ask, four months later, if the baby is growing well ? P. Andries - To unsubscribe,

Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
a volunteer to do it ;-)) Patrick Andries o - 0 - 0 Tout Unicode en français Nouveaux textes ! http://hapax.iquebec.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FO WYSIWYG-Editor Project launched @ Sourceforge

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : Oleg Tkachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 oct. 2002 12:53 Objet : Re: FO WYSIWYG-Editor Project launched @ Sourceforge Mark Malone wrote: where do I sign-up!? People, don't take it wrong, but you know, it's *fop*-dev list actually

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
Good, no need to help thus. - Message d'origine - De : Oleg Tkachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 oct. 2002 13:51 Objet : Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP patrick andries wrote: I'm willing to help (slowly) implementing the bidi support (contextualisation

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : Oleg Tkachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick andries wrote: Good, no need to help thus. I didn't say that! Volunteers are desperately needed, they are blood of fop project, so if you are willing - you are welcome. Look at today's New Developer Suggestion

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 oct. 2002 15:30 Objet : Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP patrick andries wrote: (*) Does anaybody know how glyphs variants and ligatures (see the substitution feature in Opentype) should

Fw: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 oct. 2002 15:39 Objet : RE: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP Patrick Andries wrote: (*) Does anaybody know how glyphs variants and ligatures (see the substitution feature in Opentype) should

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread patrick andries
- Message d'origine - De : J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 oct. 2002 17:27 Objet : Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP patrick andries wrote: There are also various code points assigned to ligatures and presentation forms, for example U+FB01, which

Re: Status on http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-07 Thread patrick andries
) but again if our investment were to come to fruition relatively quickly, we are too small a company to do otherwise. Patrick Andries (*) Which I **prototyped** on my machine in FOP 0.23 to the customer's satisfaction

Status on http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-06 Thread patrick andries
I think it was about a month ago, a status section was added to the FOP main page. A good idea. Four questions : 1) Could it be possible to add a date to this status : "[last updated xx-March-2002]" ? 2) Could it be possible to move this section higher ? It is difficult to spot. 3) What

Re: Line breaks and other typographical stuff (was: Re: Latest FOP schema)

2002-05-14 Thread Patrick Andries
J.Pietschmann wrote: Patrick Andries wrote: This begs the question: how should arbitrary non-breaking spaces be expressed in XSLFO, and how often does this issue arise? Well, in fine French typography, this occurs often. Semicolon, question marks and exclanation marks, for instance

Drawing a line between two region-body columns

2002-04-19 Thread Patrick Andries
for this to work, but I would really like it to. Patrick Andries - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orphan - widow

2002-04-01 Thread Patrick Andries
OK. thanks, although this is not good news. J.Pietschmann wrote: Patrick Andries wrote: What is the status of the orphan and widow control ? It is not implemented in 0.20.3, there is no precise timeline (somewhen this year), it is not all that easy to implement in the current design

orphan - widow

2002-03-31 Thread Patrick Andries
What is the status of the orphan and widow control ? If this is not yet implemented, have we got any timeline ? How complex could it be to implement for a seasoned developer (in man days) ? When is the next release of FOP scheduled ? Thanks Patrick

Re: When a page is not a page

2002-03-31 Thread Patrick Andries
What is the status of the orphan and widow control? If this is not yet implemented, have we got any timeline? How complex could it be to implement for a seasoned developer (in man days)? When is the next release of FOP scheduled? Thanks Patrick

Re: AWTRenderer L10N issues

2002-03-26 Thread Patrick Andries
Alex V. Alishevskikh wrote: 001101c1d49e$aac011c0$a3cbdcd4@term1"> Hi, Patrick,You wrote: No, it was coded in 8859-5 (Cyrillic) or Windows 1251, AFAIK, ISO8859-5 is not the same that Windows 1251. Well, Microsoft adds to 8859-5 a few Cyrillic characters in the

Re: FOP vs RenderX

2002-03-25 Thread Patrick Andries
To be frank, although I have the same experience as Matt as far as speed (or lack thereof) of XEP is concerned, XEP is pleasant to work with (more syntax checking) and does support many more features (among which the absolutely essential keep-with-next for any professional looking document).

Re: AWTRenderer L10N issues

2002-03-23 Thread Patrick Andries
Christian Geisert wrote: Alex V. Alishevskikh wrote: Hi, there, I've found what messages.ru file is missing in the AWT Renderer resources. As a result, AWTStarter crashes with NullPointerException on launching it on russian system. The another issue is wrong encoding in resources.ru

Re: AWTRenderer L10N issues

2002-03-23 Thread Patrick Andries
Patrick Andries wrote: Christian Geisert wrote: Alex V. Alishevskikh wrote: Hi, there, I've found what messages.ru file is missing in the AWT Renderer resources. As a result, AWTStarter crashes with NullPointerException on launching it on russian system. The another issue is wrong

Re: [Fwd: Numbering lines]

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Andries
I would like to be able to reset (optionally) the line number at column or page break. I did not find much info on the Layouter... Could someone give me a little pointer (for instance, where page and column break are detected). Thanks Patrick Andries

Re: [Fwd: Numbering lines]

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Andries
OK, thanks I don't need help anymore. I found it and coded it. Patrick Andries wrote: I would like to be able to reset (optionally) the line number at column or page break. I did not find much info on the Layouter... Could someone give me a little pointer (for instance, where page

Re: [Fwd: Numbering lines]

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Andries
are detected). Patrick Andries Patrick Andries wrote: OK, how can I help implementing it ? Arved Sandstrom wrote: Hi, Patrick Yes, this would be useful. All you can do now is if you know the lines ahead of time; then you can use XSLT xsl:number if your source XML permits

[Fwd: Numbering lines]

2002-03-20 Thread Patrick Andries
I sent the message to fop-user, no one answered. If this is not possible (probable), would the extension be simple (useful in legislative text). Message d'origine Objet: Numbering lines Is it possible to dynamically number lines in FO ? P. Andries

Re: [Fwd: Numbering lines]

2002-03-20 Thread Patrick Andries
a way of doing it, although one can certainly imagine an extension that extends layout for each LineArea. Regards, AHS -Original Message- From: Patrick Andries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 20, 2002 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Numbering lines] I sent the message

Re: Why do you use FOP instead of ...

2002-02-01 Thread Patrick Andries
of doing it for some time, but got discouraged when an old Xerox guy told me that Adobe actually supplies (for free ?) their PS interpreter and that developing an interpeter and fine-tuning it takes a LOT of time. Patrick Andries

Re: Choice of a XSL-Fo processor

2002-01-25 Thread Patrick Andries
Matt Savino wrote: Thanks Betty for filling in some of the blanks. (I was mixing up XEP and PassiveTex in a post I made earlier. I forgot XEP is RenderX.) I just had a couple of questions: Antenna House is Windows-only right? Do you think XEP's command line-driven approach would work within

Re: Euro sign

2002-01-18 Thread Patrick Andries
Tore Engvig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Why do I see a bullet instead of a euro sign (EUR), when I simply"compile" the fonts.fo file found in the Fop-0.20-2 distribution(./docs/examples/fo)?I am on Windows NT 2000 Professional, all my standard fonts have thus aeuro sign (me thinks).

Re: Euro sign

2002-01-18 Thread Patrick Andries
Patrick Andries wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Tore Engvig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Why do I see a bullet instead of a euro sign (EUR), when I simply"compile" the fonts.fo file found in the Fop-0.20-2 distribution(./docs/examples/fo)?I am on Windows NT

table-omit-footer-at-break

2002-01-17 Thread Patrick Andries
Does it actually work in FOP ? I had hoped to use it to circumvent the keep-next and orphans bugs This feature in my file behaves properly with Renderx but not FOP 0.20.2... P. Andries P.-S. : Why do I always have to modify master-name to master-reference when transfering a file

Re: [Fwd: Re: Euro sign]

2002-01-17 Thread Patrick Andries
Martin Stricker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Patrick Andries wrote: I did a simple test: create a text file with just one Euro sign inWin2k, then booted into Red Hat Linux 7.2 (dual boot box) and checkedwhat the text file actually contained. It was one single character #128

[Fwd: Re: Euro sign]

2002-01-16 Thread Patrick Andries
] Patrick Andries wrote: Why do I see a bullet instead of a euro sign (EUR), when I simply "compile" the fonts.fo file found in the Fop-0.20-2 distribution (./docs/examples/fo)? I am on Windows NT 2000 Profession

Re: Any real-life business use ?

2002-01-14 Thread Patrick Andries
? Has this not been resolved in later versions of IE? Has the bug been reported to the MSIE team? Patrick Andries -° - ° - ° - ° Tout sur Unicode 3.1 en français http://hapax.iquebec.com Texte complet de la norme mise à jour, annotations

Re: PostScript in pdf

2002-01-14 Thread Patrick Andries
as in PostScript? Patrick Andries - - - - Tout sur Unicode 3.1 en franais http://hapax.iquebec.com Texte complet de la norme mise a` jour, annotations - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email

Any real-life business use ?

2002-01-13 Thread Patrick Andries
to their bosses ? Anybody with both 3B2 and FO or Compuset and FO experience ? I would love to hear your story. Patrick Andries - ° - ° - ° - ° Tout sur Unicode 3.1 en français : http://hapax.iquebec.com Traduction complète, mise à jour, texte en ligne

Re: Footer problem : region-body encroaching on region-after

2002-01-09 Thread Patrick Andries
», I had naively assumed this would have been automatic. Thank you for your help. Patrick Andries -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° Tout sur Unicode (3.1) en français http://hapax.iquebec.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Footer problem : region-body encroaching on region-after

2002-01-08 Thread Patrick Andries
of being printed on a new page. I'm relatively new to FOP (and FO) and may have thus made a foolish error. Files (.FO, PDF,PS) are available. Patrick Andries - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands