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David Megginson writes: > Paul Prescod writes: > > > RTF functionality from XSL would indeed be useful. XSL is designed > > to be a conceptual subset of DSSSL. Thus if you are looking to > > extend it to handle more print-oriented flow objects, I think it is > > most appropriate that you use the DSSSL flow objects which are the seconded, in spades! for goodness sake, lets not see a proliferation of new _ad hoc_ flow objects. > The biggest problem with the DSSSL flow object classes is that there > is no middle ground between the trivial simple-page-sequence and the > extremely complex page-sequence/page-model and > column-set-sequence/column-set-model. > seconded, again. some of you may recall that I added some small extra features to the Jade TeX backend for this reason, to support what i needed to even get started with "proper" printing. in DSSSL terms: (declare-flow-object-class page-float "UNREGISTERED::Sebastian Rahtz//Flow Object Class::page-float") (declare-flow-object-class page-footnote "UNREGISTERED::Sebastian Rahtz//Flow Object Class::page-footnote") to which I need to add something to support numbered equations (which theoretically need side-by-side flow objects sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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