Re: Patches from RedHat for GNOME stylesheets.

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 06:47, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> > I'm certainly willing to help. If you tell me what your customization
> > layer is using, I'll tell you how stable I think it is. And I'll try
> > to avoid changes to those areas.
> 
>    thanks !!!
> Alexander, John, can you look at this ?

Sure. Other people have done the stylesheet work, so it would be good
for them to jump in as well, but I probably need to familiarize myself
with them, so this is a good chance.

> 
> > The HTML stylesheet API is stabilizing, I think. The FO stylesheet is
> > still in a bit softer state because FO processors aren't all
> > "state-of-the-art" yet and there's a bunch of workarounds in there.
> 
>   At the moment I think the concerns are mostly for HTML generation
> for the on-line help. FO->PDF is still done on a case by case basis 
> and I think at least from our point there is less pressure to get
> an API for that part,
> 

Yes, we're not really using FO at all in any generalized way, so no
worries there yet for us. (Many of our docs use tables extensively, and
the fo->table issue seemed scary when I looked at, so I just played
tetris instead. :-) I think we should start using FO and making pdfs,
and we're likely to start soon, but we're not doing it now.

Cheers,
John
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