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Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex? |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:27:06 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) |
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, oonplnhd02@sneakemail.com wrote:
> I like plain text, and have for a long time used outline-mode to
> write both my own private notes as well as draft documents. I have
> also for a long time been thinking about moving to LaTex so that I
> also can produce my final documents in Emacs as well.
>
> Now I have an opportunity to move to XML instead. So I would
> appreciate your thoughts about this.
>
> How can I get up-to speed with writing XML inside Emacs? Is it worth
> it, or should I stick with plain-ol-text? Any pointers to tutorials,
> books etc is appreciated.
>
> Perhaps you have a completely different setup that you are willing
> to share with me?
>
> One reason for liking plain text is it's portability (but so are eg
> .pdf these days). Another is version control, I'm a heavy user of
> cvs (pcl-cvs is *great*).
I like plain text too. Generally I write a converter from my text
format to the desired format, using hand-coded parsing and templates.
Texinfo is actually very nice. You can embed Latex commands in it, I
believe, and for technical documentation it is great. The Emacs
texinfo-mode is very good. Also, Texinfo needs minimal markup, most
of it is plain text you write.
I have used XML with various setups, and the XAE (a package that
glues several others together) is my favorite. I wouldn't use
XML over plain text and Texinfo.
Ted
- Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, Mac, 2003/06/23
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, Phillip Lord, 2003/06/23
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, Martin Stemplinger, 2003/06/23
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, Jeffery B. Rancier, 2003/06/23
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, address@hidden, 2003/06/23
- Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/24
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