(Bringing a side discussion back to the list, with Julian's
permission.)
Julian Rosse <gn...@th...> writes:
>> Now that xmlroff 0.3.3 is out, are you able to keep working on
>> xmlroff?
>
> Sure.
Great.
>> If so, is there anything in particular that you want to work on?
>
> Not really. I still have to do a fair amount of code-reading, etc. to get
> to the point of really being able to contribute. I'd guess I'll start putting
> in that time soon.
That would be good, but don't feel pressured to contribute.
>> The parts that I want to see implemented are graphics support and
>> static content, but I'm also feeling that I should spend time
>> documenting how xmlroff works. What do you see as the priorities for
>> xmlroff?
>
> Those sound good. The SVG support still intrigues me. I personally want to
> get to a point with the codebase such that I can take on more significant tasks.
> But I'm happy to help out wherever required - I can certainly do web page stuff,
> etc.
If you are interested in SVG, then please work on it.
There's two immediate applications for SVG in xmlroff:
- As an output format.
I noticed yesterday that GNOME Print supports SVG output, so it may
be as simple as replacing one string in fo-doc-gp.c.
- As an instream-foreign-object
Are you able to take on one or both of those tasks (with my help as
needed and with no deadline attached)?
> The cairo stuff sounds interesting. If it's the "way of the future" (sorry,
> I hate unnecessary double quotes), will xmlroff want a cairo backend?
If the rest of GNOME-like things are going that way, I expect xmlroff
will too.
Regards,
Tony.
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