Re: [Fwd: Re: [xmlroff] help with xmlroff]

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Charles Bozeman wrote at  3 Mar 2003 21:29:00 -0600:
...
 > Thanks for the hints. I found my problem is that some of my font files
 > (type1 pfa files) use '\r' instead of '\n' to end lines which caused
 > PDFlib to read (via fgets) too much data and process the font data

That sounds like a PDFlib bug, but it could be argued that it's a
problem with your file on a Unix system.

 > wrong. I've finally gotten the test file to work so maybe now I can be
 > somewhat productive. I just wish I had more time to spend on this
 > project, because I believe it is really important for xml processing to
 > progress.

Thank you.

I, too, would like to see XML processing -- in this context, XSL
formatting -- progress.  In fairness, xmlroff is not the only option,
but right now it is the open-source option most in need of help.

xmlroff does have more going for it than its need for help.  AFAIK,
it's the only open-source formatter written in C, and I believe that
it is the formatter that places the highest priority on i18n.
(Although I still haven't managed to get Thai or Arabic through PDFlib
even though Pango can rasterize them nicely with its FT2 backend).

Regards,


Tony Graham
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