William F. Hammond writes: > The question lingers, however, as to whether we view xml as off topic > here. On the one hand, xmltex is something that runs through LaTeX, > and, on the other hand, if xml is a presence, it changes the package > writing scene inasmuch as some of the things that people get from > packages can be provided (sometimes better) before regular LaTeX > action begins. I don't think that xml is off topic at all. personally what I'm concerned with is providing mechanism and concepts that can be used to achieve good typography. i certainly agree that something as xml can handle certain things better than clumsy attempts in the past doing it in (La)TeX. but it doesn't go all the way and I guess something like LaTeX still has a place in the game; so far I don't quite believe in XSL engines that drive a low-level formatter which is not capable of properly quering its generated typography data (something TeX(variant) systems can). frank