Re: DOCBOOK: Margin of table cells

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Adam Di Carlo writes:
 > 
 > Sebastian does sometime fix bugs in JadeTeX, but he says the table
 > implemention is totally screwed and needs a gut rewrite

hmm. I am not sure I would say that now

  > not inclined to do (PassiveTeX seems to be his vision of what should
 > replace jadetex).

Passivetex builds on xmltex, which parses XML. A good solution for
Jade would be to have it process the .fot output of jade, which would
remove the need for the whole TeX backend at a stroke. That's what I
would work on. Plus a transformation from FOT to XSL FO, in the hope
that FO renderers will come along (as they are doing)

I'd also make Jade emit FOs not FOTs, perhaps, but Didier already
plans that I seem to recall

Sebastian