[daisy] Creating an 'editable' publication type?

[Bruno Dumon]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:40 -0500, Robert Rich wrote:
> I got a little trigger happy with my last email.  It looks like these 
> folks have built an XSL-FO processor that can output to PDF, RTF, WML 
> and OpenDocument.
> 
> http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/
> 
> It's free for personal use, $600/yr for commercial single-server 
> license  The personal use doesn't expose the API though, just command 
> line utilities.  So maybe the first custom publication type would be to 
> just output the raw FO XML.  (I don't know much about FO, so this may 
> not make any sense).
> 

Actually, you can already access the raw FO XML without any effort. Just
look in bookstore directory of a specific published book for the
following file:

/publications/pdf/xml/book.fo

For test purposes, you should be able to run any fo-processor on this
file, without any need for modifying Daisy.

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