| Russel Dalenberg 2005-06-07, 8:57 pm |
| Tad McClellan wrote:
> Russel Dalenberg <russeld@pobox.com> wrote:
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> I'd generate *structured* output from your Perl (or other) program,
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Humm ... the first part is pretty easy; the input is already pretty
structured to begin with. But I was really hoping not to have to depend on
any other software to generate the final document. Maybe that's not as
easy as I had hoped.
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> I'd generate XML, perhaps in a catalog-specific schema or even
> in DocBook, and let one of the bazillion XML processors turn it
> into PDF, or troff or HTML or...
I don't know much about XML. From what I can see, generating simple XML
from my input data would be easy, but how does that give me paginated
output? I only mentioned troff because long ago and far away I used to
generate documents by hand that way, and I know it can handle pages with
headers and footers.
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Russel Dalenberg
russeld@pobox.com
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