"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2006-12-24 13:01 -0500:
> Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But I think the most important question for troff people is, > > where is a complete, high-quality converter for > > > > +-------------+/ +===========+ > > | XML-DocBook |=======>| troff | ? > > +-------------+\ +===========+ > > > > With <?troff .request?> processing instructions, this makes > > it possible to retain all the typographical aspects we like. > > > > XSL-FO to troff is also worth consideration. > > XSL-FO to troff would be far more appropriate. XSL and troff are at about > the same level; thus, you wouldn't have to wire in all the policy/styling > decisions you would in a DocBook->troff renderer. Exactly. There are lots of XML vocabularies other than DocBook -- at least one of them that's very widely used -- TEI -- and for which there are open-source stylesheets for generating XSL-FO output (the TEI project has some very good stylesheets). So XSL-FO is the best choice for a mechanism for generating portable presentation output from presentation-neutral XML markup vocabularies like DocBook and TEI. All we need are some better free-sofware XSL-FO engines. Steve Cheng announced at one time that he was working on an XSL-FO to roff engine. I don't know how far he managed to get. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://www.w3.org/People/Smith/ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
