Hi David,
I don't know what is your notion of "easily IEEE-compliant", but while
XSL-FO is certainly capable of producing such layouts I do expect you
will need a substantial customization effort of the DB stock XSL-FO
templates.
The customization will definitely not be a one evening pastime.
Regards,
__peppo
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:06 PM, David Priest <> wrote:
> Sorry. I mean that IEEE has a particular visual appearance. It doesn't
> look unusual, and I believe the stock XSL:FO are up to the task.
>
> I'm just very surprised to not see someone publishing a drop-in settings
> file that cranks out IEEE layout. Figured I should check if there's a
> reason. Hate to go barking down the wrong path.
>
> Dave Pawson wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:07 -0700
>> David Priest<> wrote:
>>
>>> A bit of googling turns up a dearth of information about rendering
>>> IEEE-compliant technical publications. This quite surprises me.
>>>
>>> Are the XSL:FO standard transformations easily IEEE-compliant?
>>
>> For what definition of IEEE compliant David? That sounds really odd
>> to me, that a transform should be compliant to ... something?
>>
>>
>>> Looking at one of their PDFs there does not seem to be anything
>>> particularly special or tricksy with their layout.
>>
>>
>> Or do you mean the PDF needs to be 'special' in some way?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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