Re: What needs to be done to make xmlroff a success?

Tony Graham <[email protected]> writes:
> Tony Graham <[email protected]> writes:
> ...
>>    What needs to be done to make xmlroff a success?
...
> I'm just looking for ideas at this point.
> 
>  - What would it take for xmlroff to become the first thing you load onto your
>    computer after the OS?
> 
>  - What would it take for you to junk your current word processor or
>    formatting system in favour of XSL-FO and xmlroff?
> 
>  - What would it take for xmlroff to be your tool of choice for formatting
>    XML?

This is the last (hopefully) list before we act on some of these...

 - Implement...

 - Implement region-before, region-after, etc.

 - Implement markers

 - Implement hyphenation

 - Improve TrueType/OpenType support

 - Provide RPMs as well as SRPMs and .tar.gz downloads

 - Provide a Windows port

 - Provide a Debian port

 - Provide a Solaris port

 - Improve developer documentation

 - Improve end-user documentation

 - Rewrite in a more OO language

 - Rewrite in...

 - Rewrite in D

 - Rewrite in C++

 - Keep it in C

 - Lose the reliance on GLib/GObject

 - Get rid of PangoXSL

 - Sack the maintainer

 - Put the statement of purpose on the xmlroff web page

 - Counteract outdated negative perceptions from when xmlroff used PDFlib

 - Be the best DocBook formatter on the planet

 - Support more graphics formats

 - Support PNG with alpha in PDF

 - Support TIFF with ICC colour profiles in PDF

 - Support SVG graphics

 - Produce output in...

 - Produce output in SVG

 - Document current graphic and output capabilities

 - Integrate with editors

 - Provide one-click formatting from within an editor

 - Provide a SWIG interface for use from scripting languages

 - Replace current JNI interface with SWIG

 - Make an Ant task for running xmlroff from Ant build files

 - Make it easier to add and run tests

 - Put a statement of purpose on the main web page

 - Replace the "Implementation Plan" page on the website

Regards,


Tony.



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