Inasmuch as Khmer – more specifically, my lack of knowledge about how to best format Khmer – made up a slide in my “XSL-FO meets the Tower of Babel” talk at the MultilingualWeb workshop in Luxembourg last week, Richard Ishida directed me to his page about Khmer, from which I found Franklin Huffman’s “Cambodian System of Writing“, and in the 153-page book, I found half a page on page numbering and section numbering in Khmer. Continue reading
Category Archives: XSL-FO
MultilingualWeb Workshop, Luxembourg
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
New XSL-FO 2.0 Working Draft
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.
XSL-FO Meetup at XML Prague 2012
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:
- Update on the XSL-FO 2.0 work
- ‘Ignite’ lightning talks on XSL-FO
- XSL-FO tutorial
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.
Page Regions in XSL-FO
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
In the beginning, there was the page…
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
XML Summer School 2011 ends on high note
Inasmuch as my final “XSLT and XSL-FO toolbox of tips and tricks” session was well received, XML Summer School 2011 finished on a high note. My other sessions, “Developing and Testing in XSLT” with Jeni Tennison in the “XSLT/XQuery” track and a five-minute Ignite-format talk on EPUB, also went well, but it was that final talk in the “Publishing” track that got the most visible reactions. Continue reading
I get a tick out of U
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
Sizing a graphic to the font size in XSL FO
Making a poster about XSLT usage in xmlroff for XML Prague, the fun moment was replacing the uses of “xmlroff” with the xmlroff logo.
xmlroff 0.6.2, libfo-examples 0.6.0
xmlroff 0.6.2 and libfo-examples-0.6.0 are now available from
http://xmlroff.org/download/xmlroff-0.6.2.tar.gz and
http://xmlroff.org/download/libfo-examples-0.6.0.tar.gz
libfo-examples 0.6.0 adds xmlroff-gtktree as a work-in-progress
demonstration of using a GTK+ tree widget to view the FO tree with what
will eventually be a side panel showing the current FO’s properties.
xmlroff 0.6.2 really only has some changes in the header files necessary
to support libfo-examples 0.6.0.
The next xmlroff version will be 0.7.0, which will have some support for
static fo:static-content.