Re: [Exist-open] Generating pdf's from xml in eXist

[Anne <ann...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:39, Sebastian Rahtz <
seb...@ou...> wrote:

>
> On 10 Jun 2010, at 12:07, Joe Wicentowski wrote:
>
> >
> > Taking this a step further, what pieces would you need in place in
> > order to produce something like the TEI Guidelines in eXist?  I recall
> > you saying that you preferred using xelatex for its native UTF-8
> > handling and easy access to Truetype fonts.
>
>
> Until/unless the XeTeX or luatex folk make an embeddable TeX system,
> it's a system call away.  Writing the XSL to turn XML into rich LaTeX
> like that used for the Guidelines is easy (ish), because LaTeX has a lot
> of high-level features and packages coming for free. What stopped me doing
> the work in FO is that I'd have to reimplement in XSL all the things
> already
> done in LaTeX macros and life is too short. Laziness….
>
>
On a second thought, after looking at XSL-FO a bit more, I have to agree
with you Sebastian. I definitely would prefer the higher level of LaTeX, and
not deal with pixels, indentation and such.
(besides that, I have my XSLT to turn XML into LaTeX already lying around)

So, Wolfgang, you mentioned before that we could write a simple servlet
'does the job' and could be added to the processing pipeline in
controller.xql
How would you go about doing that? Could you give me a pointer where to
start?

Best,
Anne


> Personally, If I could target XEP I might revisit FO, but thats unfair
> on people who don't want to buy a licence. If one stays with FOP,
> there are too many red bits on
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html
> no floating figures? forget it….
>
>
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