[pdftex] PassiveTeX

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:53, Rolf Dieterich wrote:

> Is a solution based on PassiveTeX (or with DSSSL and JadeTeX?) as the FO
> processor possible? 

I would say that PassiveTeX is not really ready for production use.

> - in my reports, I have to use the TrueType font of my company
thats OK. It should be easy to plug it in

> - I have changed the behaviour of certain LaTeX markups, e.g. the tabbing
> and itemize environment, to meet corporate design rules (things like: ragged
> right, no extra vertical skip between the itemize/tabbing lines and the
> surrounding paragraphs)

you'd have to redo all of that in XSL FO from scrach

> - German hyphenation (with a \hyphenation list)
thats easy

> - longtable package: at the moment, I don't use it because of certain
> technical problems (changing the rule width \arrayrulewidth within longtable for
> \cline and \hline doesn't behave well) but perhaps I still find a work-around
> and use the package. Would it be possible to define tables in xsl:fo which
> spread over multiple pages, with running heads/footers? Are they supported by
> PassiveTeX?
not well, no. to some extent, yes, but not 100%

> - inclusion of a logo (at the moment, with \pdfximage)

thats easy

> What about the overall performance?

slower than LaTeX. but comparable to other XSL FO engines

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