From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mac Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:21:39 GMT Organization: Telia Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <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 1056371282 11626 80.91.224.249 (23 Jun 2003 12:28:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 14:28:00 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 19UQQR-00030f-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:27:59 +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 19UQPj-000189-Uj for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:27:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jDdK+xpFq7s3GCaR9QjxSp0dyFw= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.106.64 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com Original-X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1056370899 217.208.106.64 (Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:21:39 CEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:21:39 CEST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114626 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:11119 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11119 I apologize for this off-topic posting. But I really like to know how you fellow Emacsien feal about his. 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? /mac 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*).