Re: [Refdb-users] User feedback 4

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

>> 10. May I suggest adding support for the Apache FO processor: FOP.  I
>> find its output much cleaner than pdfxmltex.  Some of the problems 
>> with
>> the pdfxmltex output of my text document are:
>> - header (document title) is only two words, but is split across two 
>> lines
>> - header and footer separation lines only cross left half of page
>> - revision history output squeezed to left side of page
>> - table of contents header starts _inside_ left margin while other
>> headers start _at_ left margin
>> - inclusion of "rubbish" text at top left of each output page: - -4pc 
>> - -4pc
>> - tables have no vertical or horizontal lines
>> - page numbers not horizontally centred

The problem with DocBook output with passivetex is not exactly 
passivetex per se, but rather the interaction between the DocBook 
stylesheets and passivetex.  Some of this has been fixed recently (the 
"rubbish" thing above), but a lot the rest of it is less-than-ideal 
table handling in passivetex, and the fact that the stylesheets use 
features not support in PT.

I'm personally writing my own XML 2 TeX stylesheets :-)

Bruce