Re: Side notes layout in xslt?

How about going to simple, XSLT friendly (x)html pages, with tables and
divs, and then print the html pages to pdf ?

Le jeu. 14 oct. 2021 C  07:48, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a C)crit :

> Hi,
>
> There is also a complication. Contributors to this list have
> offered pointers to solutions using XSLT and XSL-FO, but they have not
> stressed addressed the "no cost" context:
>
> - There is only one widely available *free* FO engine (or cake baking
> machine), namely Apache FOP.
> - For those able to support software development by buying licenses, there
> are also FO engines that are more fully-featured and more capable than FOP,
> which is free to use, but bare bones
> - The "aligning pagination on two parallel texts, one with side notes"
> requirement is the kind of thing that is straightforward using a commercial
> engine but maybe not quite so easy using the bare-bones FOP. Or it may be
> easy, perhaps if you can recast the problem to be easier (as Tony Graham
> shows). You have to have done it to know, and it varies by problem. Readers
> have already offered hints and tips as to how to go about this one.
>
> So the answer to "can you get a free cake baking machine" is yes, but it
> won't be as nice as the one you pay for and the cakes might not be as nice
> either, depending on what you need for cake.
>
> Further complication is that XSL-FO is only one option for a 'taxi
> format': people are also making print and PDF by other means, even with
> XSLT.
>
> Regards, Wendell
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:53 AM Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> *Subject:*  Side notes layout in xslt?
>>
>>
>> Before I start this I'm looking for confirmation this is possible in xslt.
>>
>>
>>
>> You're misunderstanding the role of XSLT here. XSLT transforms your XML
>> to some other format, such as HTML, XSL-FO, CSS, etc. You could even use
it
>> to transform directly to PDF if you were prepared to do a lot of work. The
>> question is (a) what format are you converting to, and (b) does that
format
>> support side notes (and if so how). Once you've established that the
target
>> format supports side-notes, the answer to the question whether you can
>> generate the side-notes using XSLT will be "yes".
>>
>> Your question is a bit like asking whether you can bake a chocolate cake
>> using Java. If you have a cake baking machine connected to your computer
>> and you know what instructions you need to send it, the answer is yes; if
>> you don't, then the answer is no. Your question is really one about cake
>> baking machines, not about Java.
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