Re: questions about roff

Firstly, welcome to xmlroff-list and xmlroff.

Secondly, sorry for the delay, but I was on vacation when you sent your
message.

On Fri, Sep 04 2009 06:45:10 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi, 
>  
> I have a few questions about xmlroff:
> I did check the internet but I couldn't find it out.

Conformance is at http://xmlroff.org/wiki/Conformance, but it doesn't
say anything about XSL 1.1.
  
> Does roff support the following things ?!
>  
> -XSL-FO 1.1

No.

> -SVG

As fo:external-graphic.

Also SVG output with the Cairo backend.

> -bookmarks (maybe with an extension or smth.)

No.  It's not supported by the backends.

It's on the Cairo roadmap [1] for Cairo 1.12, but if you look at the
email threads to which it refers, you'll see that it's also been on the
roadmap for previous versions.

> -Indexing (also maybe with an extension ?! e.g. xep can do 
> that with rx:key....)

No.

> -output INX files (Is used by Indesign)

No.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://www.cairographics.org/roadmap/