context-xml is a documentation project to show how to use ConTeXt to format XML. It is meant as a replacement to the java FOP engine, which seems to be incomplete and a dead-end project.
| Feature | Documented | note |
| description of how to use dimensions | no | |
| index of the contents of this web-site | no | |
| example files for each category | partial | |
| page-layout heigth, width | yes | |
| page-layout, margins, top, bottom, left, right | yes | |
| page-layout, header and footer | yes | |
| page-layout, static content right left | no | |
| page-layout, first page | yes | |
| page-layout, odd even page | yes | |
| page-layout, last page | no | May not be possible |
| page-numbers | no | |
| paragraph formatting, space before after | yes | |
| paragraph formatting, first-line-indent | yes | |
| paragraph formatting, block indent | yes | |
| paragraph formatting, aligning text left, right, justfied, center | yes | |
| paragraph formatting, columns | no | columns are not directly supported in FO, but are in ConTeXt |
| paragraph formatting, verbatim text | no | |
| orpan and widow control | yes | Not available with FOP, but available in ConTeXt! |
| footnotes | yes | |
| local footnotes (as in tables) | no | Don't necessarily need special code for this |
| margin notes | no | |
| lists, space between items, margin space, space before and after heading, space before and after number | yes | |
| lines, as in poetry | no | |
| table, basic | yes | |
| table,multi-paged | yes | |
| table, merge cells | yes | |
| inline, horizontal space | yes | |
| inline, italics, bold, slanted | yes | |
| inline, font-size | yes | |
| inline, font-family | no | Definitely availabe, but takes a lot of knowledge and patience |
| word spacing | no | |
| kearning | no | |
| superscript, subscript | yes | |
| figures | yes | |
| floats | no | |
| frames | no | |
| horizontal lines | partial | no different types of lines |
| verbatim text | no |
Author: Paul Tremblay
email: phthenry [at] {iglou} [dot] com
Last Updated: 2005-05-19