From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex? Date: 23 Jun 2003 14:49:49 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <81u1ahq8ur.fsf@kwikemart.springfield.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056377293 10291 80.91.224.249 (23 Jun 2003 14:08:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 16:08:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19URyD-0002YN-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:06:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19URwv-0007sY-Pi for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:05:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!zen.net.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1056376189 4864 130.88.198.228 (23 Jun 2003 13:49:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:49:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114633 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11126 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11126 >>>>> "Mac" == Mac 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