[cl-typesetting-devel] HTML rendering

[Marc Battyani]

"Klaus Weidner" <klaus at atsec.com> wrote:

More comments:

[...]
> I think this is an important step towards having cl-typesetting behave
> more like a normal program with input and output files rather than
> exclusively as a library.

Yes, I even think it will be a good thing to deliver cl-typesetting stand
alone applications in the future.

[...]
> - This would also be a good opportunity to document the style parameters
>   supported by the public interface, since grepping through the source is
>   suboptimal.

Sure, of course the doc should be written with cl-typesetting :)

[...]
> - The W3 FO specification is a surprisingly good fit to the
>   cl-typesetting internals, and since XML is isomorphic to s-exprs, I
>   think it would make sense to stay close to that model where
>   appropriate. That would make it much easier to reuse existing work,
>   i.e. for DocBook or OpenOffice rendering.

Is the W3 FO something considered a good thing and used in a lot of
applications ?

Marc

Marc