William F. Hammond writes: > to understand that HTML is just NOT a good authoring language and was > never intended to be an authoring language. It is browser fodder > designed for easy and efficient browser handling. XML, eXtensible oh come. of course it was intended as an authoring language! it is NOT good for efficient browser writing!! > Markup Language, is an extension of HTML to allow anybody to create > a tag set. But XML is also NOT an authoring language. XML is _not_ an extension of HTML!!! grr. and its a good authoring > It is more or less correct to view every XML language as also an > SGML language. Therefore, many SGML languages are also not good > for authors. However, some are not too bad. "more or less"? XML is a _strict_ subset of SGML! > transformations as pre-processing for LaTeX. Some industrial strength > publishers *may* want to think in terms of multiple SGML transformations > as pre-processing to TeX directly. thanks for the permission :-} > I am wary of messing with Knuth's TeX. i dont see the connection... sebastian