Chris Hamilton-Emery writes:
services of this kind? And lastly, all of this presupposes that I can use FO
to achieve very high-quality setting of academic books and journals, but is
this the right direction?
My gut feeling is that you would be unwise to depend too much on FO
at this point in the game. Yes, XSL FO works, in various
implementations, and you can do pretty-reasonable typesetting, but
- the spec is still not fully finished
- it does not aim to cover everything in this version
- the implementations are very much in development
so of course you could and should set up some trial projects, but
don't assume you can switch to it at the end of the year :-}
I have just finished a typical simple book in FO, an academic
conference proceedings. The design is not complex at all, and the
result is indistinguishable from what I would have done last year in
LaTeX. But thats the rub - its like LaTeX, not Quark. So you have the
same power, the same problems, and the same support burden. With the
downside that the typesetting is taken to one remove, so that your
style cannot talk to the typesetting engine.
It's that very high-quality setting phrase that worries me. I know
what sort of standards you have in Cambridge, and I would not want to
bet money that FO is really up to the job.
Sebastian
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