Re: [xmlroff] Documentation wishlist

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

Steve Cheng <g3c...@cd...> writes:

> I hope I'm not demanding too much ...
>
> Tony, I think it will be better if you write a (short) bird's eye
> overview of how libfo works --- the package is large, and I'm pretty
> sure all the things are interconnected in some way[*] that is not
> obvious at all reading the code comments.

Did you see <http://xmlroff.org/phpwiki/index.php/DesignNotes>?

It hasn't been added to recently since there's been no indication of
people reading it.

> [*] If you have read the docbook2X mailing list, I am trying to
> implement XSL-FO with groff (as a way to warm up :)  There, it's
> not obvious to me, for example, how to implement keeps,
> or floats, and if I were to try to something in libfo I wouldn't
> know where to even start.

Then ask where to start.  Either ask for suggestions on how to do what
you want to do or ask for suggestions for simple things that you can
do.  There's also the bug reports and enhancement requests on the
SourceForge project site.

Regards,


Tony.