xml-dev - Re: FOs again

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Peter Murray-Rust writes:
 > I particularly agree with the last two goals FOP is already almost usable
 > for some purposes - Michael Wright - working with Henry Rzepa has written a
 > 60 page thesis in XML (about, and featuring, CML], transformed to XSL-FO
 > and rendered (in print) with FOP. 

I'd be interested to see a comparison between this 60 page document
rendered with XSLFO/FOP, and the same document rendered using
XML+CSS, and a good browser's print engine. 

 >It looks very attractive and (IMO) no
 > less presentable than many Word documents.

if `as good as Word' is the target, then the XSL FO team are *way* out
of line in their work :-}

Sebastian Rahtz


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