From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Off-topic: Plain text, XML or LaTex? Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:11:03 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84d6h4gdbs.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> 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 1056444062 29577 80.91.224.249 (24 Jun 2003 08:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 24 10:41:00 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 19UjLc-0007ed-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:40:17 +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 19UjHm-0007tS-Rf for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:36:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056443528 27666521 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:32mEe8KZKH3MluygJn06qr7CCkU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114676 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:11169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11169 Mac writes: > 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. I think the main advantage of using XML is that it is machine-processable. And the advantage of LaTeX is that it can produce good-looking output easily. There are ways to produce, say, HTML from LaTeX, but they are inherently fragile and difficult to get right. Or RTF, or whatever. I guess that would be easier with XML. But on the other hand, LaTeX has really great support for typography, and I doubt that there is an XML processor that allows you to specify whether a "." character is part of an abbreviation or the end of a sentence. (In English, end-of-sentence spacing differs from inter-word spacing.) In LaTeX this is quite easy. Does this help? -- This line is not blank.