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Re: Margin of table cells
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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