Joseph Wright wrote:
> J.Fine wrote:
>> Joseph wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, has anyone else got any comments on the very radical
>>> approach proposed by Jonathan Fine?
>> Not radical, but mainstream.  See, for example:
>>     http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
>>
>> ===
>> Sphinx uses reStructuredText  as its markup language, and many of its strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
>> ===
>
> I meant radical in the context of "the LaTeX project writing LaTeX3", an
> in particular in the context of xparse (which is currently a TeX-based
> system).

Using TeX macros are the only programming language for building
LaTeX3 is largely a self-imposed restriction.  No one else is, with all
seriousness, building such a complicated system with such a primitive
programming language.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong here.)

--
Jonathan



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