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Re: [Groff] Eric Raymond on groff and TeX
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] Eric Raymond on groff and TeX |
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Wed, 9 May 2012 00:50:03 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 08, 2012, Larry Kollar wrote:
> But I think there's room for a third kind of markup. I
> call it *humanist* markup. Humanist markup has structure —
> headings, lists, paragraphs, are easy to denote and
> separated from presentation. The markup is simple to
> transform to other languages. But in the end, the human can
> step in and override things when necessary, because in
> the end the humans know what they want. Macro packages
> can provide that kind of flexibility, where BDSM markup
> languages won't.
I'm in Larry's camp on this. I wouldn't want to typeset a book
of contemporary poetry using structural markup, but neither would
I want to prepare a technical report with only presentational
markup (perish the thought). Perhaps my bias is showing, but
it seems to me that all the major groff macrosets provide an
acceptable--sometimes exemplary--middle ground. Humanist is
entirely the right word for it.
Larry's correct, too, about transforming groff markup to other
languages. As Steve can attest, I think, it's generally simpler to
convert groff markup into acceptable XML than to produce good pdfs
from XML filtered through groff.
Looking forward to more on that, Steve.
--
Peter Schaffter
Author of The Binbrook Caucus
http://www.schaffter.ca
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