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Re: [docbook-apps] many problems with converting DocBook XML to PDF
Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 09:28 schrieben Sie:
> I'll just add one more bit of information: 1.61.3 is the latest
> version of the docBook stylesheets that work with PassiveTeX. That's
> while I still use that, with a customization layer to deal with
> constructs added by later versions of the DTD.
>
> Someone recently encouraged me to post bug reports for PassiveTeX
> compatibility issues of the stylesheets, but I'm not sure it would be
> worth the effort - the problems are numerous, changes sometimes
> substantial; the stylesheets are not the right place to fix PassiveTeX
> problems. Sad, since PassiveTeX is the only free FO processor that can
> render math, but in Sebastian Rahtz' defense, it was never meant to be
> more than a proof of concept, let alone a fully-functional FO
> processor.
So the conclusion is: "Don't use PassiveTeX."? :-) (or :-( )
> Anyway, TeX has had its (long and glorious!) time, but the world is ready
> for successors. All we lack is free tools.
Especially for typesetting MathML.
> Programmers of the world, contribute to FOP...! :-)
Isn't FOP already mature enough to produce good output from FO and SVG?
> Justus.
Wolfgang