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Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??

• To: iandeli@c... (Ian Tindale)
• Subject: Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200210181621.15396.iandeli@c...> from "Ian Tindale" at Oct 18, 2002 04:21:15 PM

Ian Tindale scripsit:

> Not convinced. In fact, using your examples, you're in danger of presenting 
> possibly out of date possibly distributed possibly restored from backup etc. 
> versions rather than to regenerate the freshest one and only. [strokes chin, 
> makes tea, wondering if I'm actually right - nah - nobody ever does that with 
> PostScript unless they're mad or talk to themselves.].

Au contraire.  People *do* keep around Postscript all the time -- when you
download a technical paper, the chance that it is in Postscript or PDF
is pretty close to 100%, unless it comes from the W3C or some such place
that has an ax to grind.

In any case, people don't always *want* the latest version.  Sometimes they
want the version that was published (i.e. distributed to the public,
not necessarily printed) on January 12, 1999, with not a jot changed.

-- 
John Cowan                                   jcowan@r...
        "You need a change: try Canada"  "You need a change: try China"
                --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know

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