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> I am currently looking again at xsl:fo and Apache's FOP to perhaps
> generate content into an XML file then apply xsl:fo and get a PDF out
> of the end.  My main requirements are to be able to create reasonably
> structured documents (eg. sections, subsections) with tables of
> content, text flowing, tables etc.
>
> So, any of you out there know of any new, sparkly, whizz-bang systems
> for doing this that might be for some reason better than the myriad
> of existing stuff out there?

There was an article on a list apart a while back [1] by Bert Bos &  
Håkon Lie about the 'boom' book microformat. They used HTML + CSS to  
mark the book up and then Prince to generate the PDF.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom

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petef

[1]: Almost two years ago so maybe you've already seen it.