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Marcus Carr writes: > So if you wanted to use a different FO application to render that > book, you would likely have to go back to the source document and > redo your page breaks, right? Yes, definitely. But how big a job is that, compared to translating the style rules from (say) LaTeX to Framemaker. If I have to switch to a new FO formatter, I have a not inconsiderable task on my hands, if I want to rerun old jobs. But the effort I put into instantiating design rules as FOs remains, and I claim that I am ahead of the game. > If the two applications used different hyphenation dictionaries, there is a > distinct possibility that the page breaks would change in a 300 page book. every time ..... never mind, just how they interpret font metrics. applications use their own ideas about default inter-word spacing, because its not part of a font metric > are benefits in everyone using the same terminology, but I believe > that FOs are intended to fulfill a much bigger role than that. My > understanding is that they're supposed to "free us from the > shackles of formatting applications", but > I've yet to be convinced that they can deliver this. I am with you there. The unshackling notion sounds fanciful Sebastian Rahtz *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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