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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing DocBook
"Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes: > godoy@conectiva.com.br writes: > > While there's no full implementation of DSSSL we'll have to hack the > > output or we'll never get what we want --- and _need_ --- to. > > I question the _need_, often. Standards can be changed. :-) Or adapted... Which is also a need for changing it if too many people are doing this... :-) > > It's just a matter of > > _no_ choice to work in the correct manner. I hate that and it is very > > "expensive" and time consuming... > > I sympathize with your plight. My personal feeling is that standards > will simply fall, and people will just accept the total dross they get > from Microsoft products. > > When did you last drink coca-cola, eat a hamburger, or a pre-made > pizza? were they the best food you could find? Hmmm... The situation a _little_ different here. Although they were not the best food I've eaten, they made their job: feeding me. DSSSL can't make a few things that are needed in many places (like placing a line on the top of a page with "Chapter X - XYZ page #" above it). There are other minor things. I don't have all the knowledgement that you do on DSSSL and ESIS to implement something more advanced using it. But I do know some of the outputs that I'm using to hack on them. I've disturbed you a lot with JadeTeX problems sometime ago (I think you do remember that :-)). JadeTeX couldn't generate the kind of output I needed. PLEASE: Note that when I write DSSSL above I'm talking about Jade/OpenJade implementations of it. Below I'm talking about DSSSL itself. The problem _IS NOT_ with JadeTeX, but it is with _DSSSL implementations_. While they are not fully implemented, we won't be able to make things the correct way. I don't think it's a matter of changing some standard, it's "just" implementing it at it's full capacity. DSSSL is too complex, unfortunately, and hasn't been fully implemented yet... -- Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com> Departamento de Publicações Publishing Department Conectiva S.A.
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