Re: DOCBOOK: Margin of table cells

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> 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

Oh excellent.

BTW, Debian ships jadetex 2.7 in frozen/potato.  Do you think for
unstable/woody I should ship what you have now?  I was doing some work
on 2.9.  Should I ship that?  Wait for 2.12?

>   > 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.

I think there must be a typo in the last sentance.

> 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

Huh, sounds interesting but I'm not sure.

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