Dave Peticolas writes:
>
> > I think that gnome-print is probably the right way to go, but I'm not
> > sure how long it's going to be before it's ready for prime time. Do
> > you know, Dave?
>
> >From what I can extract from the gnome developer's site, the
> gnome printing libraries will be in the 1.2 release of Gnome,
> which has a target date of Sometime Soon. The status page on
> the printing library indicates it is close to complete.
>
>
> > Actually, for printed output, another option to consider would be to
> > generate scheme forms containing the data, and then just write some
> > (trivial) converters that would spit out postscript, LaTeX, text, or
> > whatever. This would be similar to the idea of defining a DTD and
> > then using XML, but using XML would require additional dependences,
> > whereas using scheme forms would be free, parser-wise.
>
> I think this is a good idea. btw, when you say 'scheme forms' do you
> mean just standard s-expressions? Or is there something more elaborate
> involved there?
I think Rob B. is talking about standard s-expressions.
I suggested something like this in a subsequent mail. If you guys
think this more complex method is worth the additional complexity, I'd
be very happy to go with it.
Are we anywhere near a feature freeze? If we are, I'll hack together
exporting the HTML to a HTML/PS convertor. This wouldn't take long at
all, and would give us printing now.
If not, I won't worry about that, and instead concentrate on the
intermediate form idea.
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