PassiveTeX XSL FO implementation, 1.1

Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:16:34 +0100
From:      Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To:        xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
Subject:   [ANN] PassiveTeX XSL FO implementation, 1.1

I have made a new release of my PassiveTeX XSL FO processor on http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex. There are a variety of bug fixes (nothing too dramatic), and some new implementations of FO elements and characteristics. One important addition is that fo:marker and fo:retrieve-marker now work, more or less, allowing dynamic headers and footers. I have tested this by formatting the XSL FO spec itself, with satisfactory results.

As ever, PassiveTeX is for you if:

you have an existing TeX system which you understand
you need decent hyphenation, justification and page-breaking now
you want MathML support
you want high-quality PDF (compressed, bookmarks, links etc)
you are into big files and long batch processing

It isn't for you if:

you want a Java solution which you can embed
you have never seen TeX and dont want to
you want SVG support
your life revolves around complex tables

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/coursebook.pdf is a typical example of what I use this system for.

I expect, by the way, to share TeX details with the Unicorn XSL FO processor in the future; and possibly move to a comparable method myself.

Sebastian Rahtz

XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. For related resources, see "XSL/XSLT Software Support."

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