From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex?
Date: 23 Jun 2003 14:49:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfptl4ykci.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81u1ahq8ur.fsf@kwikemart.springfield.se
>>>>> "Mac" == Mac <oonplnhd02@sneakemail.com> writes:
Mac> I apologize for this off-topic posting. But I really like to
Mac> know how you fellow Emacsien feal about his.
Mac> I like plain text, and have for a long time used outline-mode
Mac> to write both my own private notes as well as draft
Mac> documents. I have also for a long time been thinking about
Mac> moving to LaTex so that I also can produce my final documents
Mac> in Emacs as well.
Mac> Now I have an opportunity to move to XML instead. So I would
Mac> appreciate your thoughts about this.
Latex is easy and quicker to write than any of the XML options that I
have tried (docbook/linux doc), and produces nicer documents anyway.
XML is fairly hard to read, and to use, for doing text anyway. XML
support for Emacs is okay (through PSGML mode), but there are many XML
specs it doesn't work with (namespaces, XML schema and so on).
Latex has it's irritations as well of course, but I think its a closer
match for what you want.
Cheers
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-23 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 12:21 Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex? Mac
2003-06-23 13:49 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-06-25 9:24 ` Mac
2003-06-25 19:30 ` Robert Mecklenburg
2003-06-23 16:39 ` Martin Stemplinger
2003-06-23 17:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-06-23 19:23 ` Jeffery B. Rancier
2003-06-23 21:03 ` Roodwriter
2003-06-24 7:11 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.8506.1056397474.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-25 3:37 ` Galen Boyer
[not found] <E19URxP-0007tH-2A@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-06-23 14:57 ` Urban Gabor
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2003-06-24 4:37 Dmitri.Minaev
[not found] <mailman.8464.1056380372.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-25 3:40 ` Galen Boyer
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