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- The XSL FO page model is inherited from DSSSL, and is unproven
for production-quality print formatting.
- The XSL specification is unfinished and incomplete.
- One cannot easily tweak TeX's behaviour with this system.
- The table model of XSL is sufficiently far from TeX's that it
may require a pre-processor.
- Together with FOP, we now have systems to experiment with, and
commercial implementations cannot be far behind (can they?).
- TeX is close to being a XSL FO-capable formatter.
- With the Omega TeX variant (using Unicode internally), we have a
native Unicode typesetting system ready and waiting.
- XSL FO does not threaten TeX -- it gives it a reason to
survive.
- Things can only get better!
Michel Goossens
1999-08-13