Inasmuch as I couldn’t attend the Limerick MultilingualWeb workshop last year, I’m doubly pleased to be presenting at the Luxembourg workshop on 15–16 March 2012 with a talk titled “XSL-FO meets the Tower of Babel”: Continue reading
Inasmuch as there’s work been done, there’s a new XSL FO 2.0 Working Draft at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20/. This version adds Ruby, numbering, and side-by-side formatting.
Inasmuch as XML Prague 2012 includes “Pre-conference Friday“, the W3C XML Print and Page Layout Working Group is looking to host a XSL-FO meetup before XML Prague on Friday, 10 February 2012. The format and content will depend on your feedback. Possible ideas include:
If you use Twitter, register your interest at the “XSL-FO meetup @ XML Prague 2012” page on Lanyrd.com, otherwise send me email. If you have suggestions for the format or content, likewise add something to the Lanyrd page or send me email.
Inasmuch as I used this new sequence of images in my recent XSLT and XSL-FO talk at XML Summer School 2011, here’s an outline of page regions in XSL-FO.
The fo:simple-page-master FO in XSL 1.1 defines the dimensions of a page. A document may have more than one fo:simple-page-master, and the same fo:simple-page-master may be used in multiple contexts. A fo:simple-page-master has up to five regions: fo:region-body, fo:region-start, fo:region-end, fo:region-start, and fo:region-end. Only fo:region-body is required. The adjacent figure shows one arrangement of the regions. Continue reading
Inasmuch as the second chapter of the development of XSL formatting is now being written with XSL-FO 2.0, here’s a version of its first chapter that was popular back at XML Prague 2010.
In the beginning, there was the page. And the page was without objects and void, and not a whole lot was upon the face of the page. Continue reading
Inasmuch as I couldn’t get a ✓, tick, check, ✓, ✓, U+2713, CHECK MARK, call it what you will, into PDF on Ubuntu 8.04 with Antenna House V5, I had to find a font with it and tell the formatter where to find the font. Continue reading