Subject: Re: SGML->Latex with Dsssl [Was Re: Formatting mathematics] From: s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:39:06 +0000 |
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 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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