[admin] Re: [Clump] Re: Rebel With A Cause

Klaus Weidner kw at w-m-p.com
Mon Nov 3 16:31:00 UTC 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:16:11AM -0500, Erik Enge wrote:
> Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
> > * ability to retrieve articles in multiple formats (TeX/Docbook
> > source, html, postscript) if the source that the author submits
> > permits easy conversion;
> 
> Can cl-typesetting output to any of these formats in addition to PDF?

That's IMHO the wrong way around - the question should be which of these
formats you can use as *input* to cl-typesetting [1]. The concept of
typesetting doesn't really make sense for HTML output [2].

Converting the cl-typesetting PDF output to PostScript is trivial, but
PDF is probably more useful anyway.

-Klaus

[1] in a future version - the current one is an (impressive) proof of
concept using Lisp as the input language. You'd need to write a
conversion layer to accept other input formats.

[2] unless you create the document as a huge table with pixel-sized cells
that you render into :-)




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