Well, that was an unexpected benefit

[rhu]

This week Bitstream/Pageflex hosted the W3C's "XSL Formatting Objects" working group for a face-to-face meeting. Among the topics were synchronized parallel text flows, nested footnotes, and concurrent marginalia streams. So they asked me to walk them through my "Absolut Purim" parody, since (aside from the shape of the margins at the top of the column) it's actually formatted like a regular page of Talmud, and demonstrates a real-world use case for all the features that were being discussed.

Comments

[cnoocy]

That's done in XSL-FO? I'd love to see the source.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

No, it's not done in XSL-FO; it was done in 1995 in TeX. But the FO WG wanted to see it so they could have a real-world example of, for example, one set of footnotes that themselves have a second set of footnotes separately keyed.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[cellio]

Cool!