Yes, there is still an IBM implementation and yes it is still under
development.
Sharon
Sharon C. Adler
Senior Manager, Extensible Technologies
IBM Research
PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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"W. Eliot Kimber"
<eliot@xxxxxxxxxx To: Sebastian Rahtz
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Please respond to
eliot
Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 21:57, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>
> (an interesting version of events. I still claim you mention Brian Reid.
> and LaTeX is a product of the 1980s).
Thanks for the clarification. Whose is Brian Reid? Please educate us.
>>2001:
>> - XSL FO recommendation published. Four implementations availble:
>>FOP, XEP, XSL Formatter, and Epic (partial implementation)
>
>
> Feel free to write PassiveTeX out of history; it was formatting
> (pre-rec) XSL FO documents in summer 1999, along with the predecessor to
> XEP. see Montreal conference that summer.
I was not aware of PassiveTeX--it's omission was not intentional.
Clearly I wasn't paying attention in that session of the conference. And
I must admit that I've only been tracking FO closely for the last year,
so I appologize for failing to mention anything done before that time.
> and no-one ever seems to mention the IBM implementation. does it still
> exist?
I also didn't know there was an IBM implementation.
Cheers,
Eliot
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