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 The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).