Re: XSL FO to DVi (Was RE: XSL-FO Does it have the guts?)

James Tauber writes:
 > The FOP architecture is set up to make this easy to add in. At present, the
 > PDF stuff is separated out from FOP. It would be quite easy to plug in a DVI
 > alternative. Any volunteers?

I could probably find some, but why does anyone *want* dvi, if you
have a PDF backend? i guess some dvi viewers (xdvi on a good day) are
superior to PDF renderers, but in the general case I find it hard to
accept.

 > Of course, if Sebastian and I get FOP producing TeX, then that is one path
 > to DVI, but I would have no problem with FOP going straight to DVI itself.
the argument for TeX output would be that it *would* enable you to
tweak things. certainly changing hyphenation, adding manual page
breaks, and so on. so long as the TeX is more readable than Jade
output (and thats the challenge)

sebastian


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