Re: [xep-support] Border-Collapse in XEP

Thanks for that Michael, I'll check that we are using the latest version
in our application.

Cheers,

Fraser

Michael Sulyaev wrote:

> Hello Fraser,
>
> You have found an old post.
> Border-collapse property is supported in XEP 4.0 and higher.
> Here is an abstract from doc/WhatsNew.txt:
>
>
> XEP 4.0
>
> New features
> ============
>
> 1. XEP 4.0 uses a single configuration file for all subcomponents:
> formatter options, fonts, and hyphenation are now configured from
> a single location. The new format has the following advantages
> over the old one:
>
> - default options for back-ends can be set in the same file;
>
> - font configuration is more intuitive: font families are created
> directly, and individual fonts are explicitly assigned to specific
> combinations of font family + weight + style + variant;
>
> - font aliases can resolve to multiple font families;
>
> - font aliases can depend on the language setting.
>
> 2. Table processing is now fully conformant to the XSL Recommendation.
> In particular, the following features are now supported:
>
> - automatic table width adjustment (table-layout="auto");
>
> - collapsed borders
> (border-collapse="collapse"|"collapse-with-precedence")
>
> 3. Additional prepress features are supported:
>
> - spot and registration colors can be specified in both XSL-FO and SVG;
>
> - bleeds and trim offsets can be controlled by processing instructions,
> and respective marks placed on the page;
>
> - arbitrary SVG images can be placed in the image offset area, to create
> advanced printer marks. The distribution includes sample SVGs for
> registration targets and color bars.
>
> 4. More SVG features are supported:
>
> - clipping implementation is extended to cover arbitrary combination
> of path, shapes, and text;
>
> - fill-opacity and stroke-opacity are supported in PDF output only
> (incompatible with PDF version 1.3).
>
> 5. Improvements in font handling:
>
> - TrueType collection fonts are supported;
>
> - OpenType fonts with CFF outlines are supported, with limitations:
> * in PostScript, only non-CID fonts are supported, and Level 3 is
> required;
> * subsetting of these fonts is not implemented.
>
> - Automatic slanting is possible, to create oblique and backslant
> fonts from upright variants.
>
> - Basic support for ligaturization: a list of ligatures can be specified
> in the font configuration.
>
>
> Other Improvements
> ==================
>
> - XEP can work without write access to local file system.
> When TMPDIR option is set to 'none', XEP stores all
> intermediate files in memory.
>
> - Performance is optimized: memory consumption reduced,
> table processing speeded up;
>
> - Documentation rearranged and refactored.
>
> Interface Changes
> =================
>
> - Deprecated Java interfaces have been removed;
>
> - FormatterImpl takes an optional extra parameter,
> an XML document describing the configuration
> (as a generic JAXP source);
>
> - Validator now accepts generic JAXP source as input.
>
> Bug fixes
> =========
>
> - Inline keep conditions work on rx:index-item elements.
>
>
>

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