> >The point is that not only do you get the down-translation for print
> >in LaTeX but also you can write (in the programming language of your
> >choice) translators to whatever other formats you wish to reach.  (Of
> >course, very clever things in this direction have been done using TeX,
> >the program, but I suspect that there is a limit to this approach.)
>
> Maybe Springer is learning from Elsevier Sciences mistakes.  They focused
> on SGML for years --- and look what happened to *their* share prices :0!
> --
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Is the writer who I think he is?

Those translators could even be written in lisp.   :-)
In fact, I may even go that way myself eventually.

                                   -- Bill