Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

mhobgood <address@hidden>:
> For those of us not up to speed on all the current jargon, would you  
> explain what XSL and FO are?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/

You can think of it as a sort of XML-world equivalent of TeX or
PostScript.  The idea is that XML applications needing to do page
layout should generate FO as their last step; an XSL:FO renderer then
takes care of translating to a printer command language.

In practice, all the energy is in FO-to-Postscript translators like
Apache FOP.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>