Roozbeh Pournader writes: > thinking about forgetting all efforts I have had to widen the > use of TeX and stuff in this part of the world, if LaTeX > is going this way, to get converted to a typesetting engine > used by some What You See Is All You've Got system. contradictory, surely? TeX's power should replace the WYSIAYG stuff. > <DIV id="client-boyera" class="client"> > <P><SPAN class="client-title">Client information:</SPAN> > some stuff</DIV> > (quoted from HTML4.0 description from W3C) > > which is more dirty. Do you? (and remained a TeXie?) Do you see it > user friendly and readable? Like LaTeX code? > why dont you write <client id="boyera">some stuff</client> and process it with a DSSSL or XSL style sheet, which could target the screen, paper (using TeX) or an audio renderer? > Sorry for duckspeak, perhaps a Knuth's fan is a stranger here in TeXsoc :) > TeX is a typesetting engine, pretty damn good it is too. i want to use it, does most of what i want. i don't care what its input is, because I dont want to write it, i want a computer to write it for me, based on my abstract text, and my stylesheet. Lamport LaTeX is a system that does that for me, and very well it has served me, but now i want better. so i turn to XML and its style sheets, to replace *Lamport LaTeX*. Knuth's TeX itself stays underneath, untouched as it always was. what *LaTeX 3* might do as an intermediate layer is less clear. Sebastian