Re: SGML->Latex with Dsssl [Was Re: Formatting mathematics]

[s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz)]

kubek writes:
 > The "sgmlspl approach" is surely a good one. But using DSSSL for
 > SGML->latex conversion would improve code sharing : non-formatting
 > code, such as items reordering, written in DSSSL may lately be reused
 > for another purpose (or backend).
 > 
thats a fair point. 

 > be interesting  to 
 > 	1- code an initial doc with sgml ,
 > 	2- transform it in a latex doc using dsssl, 
 > 	3- print it from the dvi source, using the "default"
 > 	formatting instructions of latex
 > 
 > In fact, with this approach, the formatting instructions of DSSSL are
 > too much, only the structuring ones are really interesting :)

well, thats the problem, isnt it, the level at which to work. do you
do the styling of a section head in terms of DSSSL, in raw TeX
emitted, or in a LaTeX style file? Once you start having LaTeX style
files coming into the equation, most of the point of DSSSL has
gone. 

people have argued that what is needed is a translator from DSSSL to
LaTeX *stylesheet*, rather than LaTeX markup. Use all the elegance of
DSSSL as a front end to composing LaTeX styles. I cant get my head
round it, personally, its just seems perverse.

sebastian


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