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* Ben Collver (collver1@attbi.com) wrote:
> Alastair Rankine wrote:
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> >>I would be interested in finding a good presentation language that=20
> >>could output to pdf or postscript.  Layout languages such as DocBook=20
> >>are fine for technical documentation or resume's, but not so great=20
> >>for stuff like business reports.
> >
> >Docbook is not a layout language. In fact they've done a great job of=20
> >specifying the markup to be more-or-less completely layout-agnostic.
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> >You probably want to look at XSL-FO which is the polar opposite: a=20
> >completely layout-centric XML dialect. Unfortunately it's about as=20
> >user-friendly as postscript :)=20
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> I should have remembered that DocBook is specifically layout agnostic.
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> Some things I would like:
> * device control (such as controlling duplex mode of a laser printer)
> * paginated tables (some languages do this poorly!)
> * presentation control (for example, with a page resolution of=20
> 5100x6600, plot a point at coordinates [5095,6595])

All this things can be done by LaTeX with apropriate packages like FoilTeX
and ppower4.=20


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