Subject: Re: [xsl] line-breaking and hyphenation in XSL-FO From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 20:35:44 +0100 |
read that FOP uses TeX algorithm to wrap linesOops, unfortunately this is wrong.
I could not find mention of TeX in XSL-FO spec. Are FO implementation free to use TeX or possibly other typesetting standards?
You are making up things. TeX is not a standard in the sense that it isn't approved by any of the recognized standard bodies. TeX is a program system for typesetting, and it broke many new grounds in computer typesetting, in particular the paragraph filling and the hyphenation algorithms developed for TeX are still the best for their respective purposes. XSLFO leaves many details for the implementation, sometimes this is made explicit, often this can be guessed from the absence of any advice. Hyphenation is explicitely left to the implementation, line breaking implicitely (they could have mentioned TR14 though, given the extensive reference to TR9).
But I have found that hyphenation properties in XSL-FO spec closely resembles TeX algorithm. Was XSL-FO line-breaking and hyphenation specs written keeping TeX in mind?
The hyphenation properties had been chosen because they were used in lead typesetting for more than hundred years.
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