xmlroff (was: Yelp)

[Tony Graham <Tony Graham Sun COM>]

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
 > The xmlroff project was an interesting idea on this front -- trying to

I consider that it is still an interesting idea.

 > use Pango to lay out FO files. Unfortunately, it has some fairly
 > insurmountable implementation problems (circular dependencies if you use
 > the gnomeprint backend -- which is more or less compulsory since pdflib
 > has a GNOME-unfriendly license -- and requires a hacked up Pango, rather
 > than choosing to work nicely with mainline Pango). The design from this

Maintaining "a hacked up Pango" is not my idea of a good time either.
The goal of PangoPDF has always been to become unnecessary.  And, yes,
I do try [1].

 > project seems like a reasonable idea to follow-up, but it needs somebody
 > able to throw a lot of time at it.

I agree, but several people with less time would still be beneficial.

Regards,


Tony Graham.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125762