[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposed Adoption of the Online Standards Development Platform

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I have not yet seen a single XML document processed with the
>> standard XML tools to create a PDF file that really looks good from
>> a typographical point of view.
> 
> That's possibly because the good ones generally don't mention how
> they were produced.

This might be indeed the case.

> E.g. a good proportion of best-selling fiction is done from XML
> using CSS for print and AntennaHouse Formatter or PDFReactor or
> RenderX or PrinceXML, as are a good many scientific and technical
> journal articles.

Well, the question how much manual editing was necessary after
converting the input XML...

> Note that since Word and Open/Libre Office both use XML, the
> document is ALREADY being produced from XML.

I was imprecise, sorry.  There is a big difference between using XML
as a document storage format, with zillions of proprietary and/or
program-specific extensions, and using XML for document interchange.
I meant the latter.


    Werner