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On 7 Nov 2007, at 20:23, Peter Ferne wrote:

>> 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

Ohhhh, that looks like just the kind of thing I'm looking for.  I've  
been playing with xsl:fo and fop today and have to say I've been  
getting some pretty nice results and its not actually too bad.  But  
if I can achieve a similar effect with just XHTML and CSS then that  
makes my life a lot easier.

-Matt

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