Re: More FO drivers

[Ovidiu P. <ov...@xe...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 14:05:36 +0100, "Greger Sernemar" <gre...@ho...> wrote:

> Is there any plans to implement FO drivers ?
> For example one or several of the following:
> 
> XEP
> http://www.renderx.com/FO2PDF.html
> 
> XSL Formatter from Antenna House
> http://www.antennahouse.com/xslformatter.html
> 
> Unicorn Formatting Objects (UFO)
> http://www.unicorn-enterprises.com/

There is little incentive for a free software developer to support
commercial packages, unless free versions are provided by the
developer, and they add sufficient value to the package to be worth
spending the time developing them.

However, if you have time to develop drivers for them, I can
incorporate them in the official releases.

> PassiveTeX
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/

This is an excellent package! However PassiveTeX uses plain TeX to do
the processing, so you can use normal Emacs packages for TeX
processing to use PassiveTeX. XSLT-process is of no help here.

> REXP
> http://www.esng.dibe.unige.it/REXP

Sorry, I'm not familiar with this project, and I don't use it. As I
said, I'm willing to incorporate changes to support them, if you
provide them.

Best regards,
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