O/H Tommy Reynolds έγραψε: > Uttered Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > >> Tommy - is the barrier to having make run the Java tools the lack of >> support in xmlto? If we're this close, maybe we can get xmlto updated >> in the devel tree (rawhide) right away. Bonus would be if we could see >> all of this pushed eventually into updates to FCs 5 and 6. > > Karsten, > > I've had XMLTO working with FOP, and producing PDF's, for quite a > while now. As Paul W Frields as pointed out, the PDF's look awful > because we need work on the stylesheet. I could try to work on the stylesheet. Are there any useful documents I should take a look at to install the toolchain instead of googling it and stuff? Any advices etc? I guess the work on the graphics/stylesheets could be done with the proprietary toolchain until the FOSS one works, right? -dim > As you probably remember, I sent the appropriate XMLTO patches for > FOP to Tim Waugh many, many moons ago. AIUI, his reluctance to add > them officially has been mostly that FOP wasn't free. The FOP > dependancy in the XMLTO RPM would be endlessly confusing. > > If needed I could mangle the patches to use either FOP or passivetex > so as not to break things while our FOP implementation matures, with > the default renderer being passivetex. These are just minor details. > > I lack the java-fu to compile FOP using gcj; if someone could do > it for me, and maybe send me the patches, I could provide Tim a > with a complete package. > > In summary: > > 1) If we could get someone to provide patches to compile FOP using > gcj, I could do the RPM-fu. > > 2) Having hopes of a FOP rpm, I can update the XMLTO rpm to utilize it. > > 3) Present Tim Waugh with a fait acompli. > > I'm not sure that #3 is sufficient to get the updates into rawhide, > but it's a necessary step. > > Cheers > > -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
