[be] [ bibledit-Feature Requests-1841518 ] free xsl-fo formatter

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Feature Requests item #1841518, was opened at 2007-11-30 10:24
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Submitted By: Teus Benschop (teus)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: free xsl-fo formatter

Initial Comment:
There is a need for a free xsl-fo formatter.

The one now in use is XEP, a proprietary formatter though not costing any money 
as long as it is for personal use.

There is another reason why another xsl-fo formatter is needed. The footnotes 
are now written one below the other, but it would save a lot of space if these 
could be all written in one block at the bottom of the page, or in two blocks, 
one block per column.

Ideas:

Needs to be based on Pango to support minority languages.

Two stages, actually two programs, see XEP intermediate format. First stage 
lays the text out. Last stage produces PDF. Stage one can pipe into stage two.

C++ as this is easier writing.

Take examples from xmlroff and learn from it.

To reduce memory usage, consider multiple passes filling in labels in 
subsequent passes. If a pass changes the layout, use that label, and format 
everything again.



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