This has come up several times before. I agree completely: many peoplenevertheless it is imho the completly wrong attempt. because FOP is not ready for primetime, you suggest to put energy to integrate a legacy system, that does not fit into the XML publishing process?? this sounds weird to me. far better would be the idea to invest more energy in enhancing FOP.
want to use LaTeX to create PDF because it does a vastly
better job than any of the FOP systems.
This is really a bad idea, I'm afraid, and the very last thing we actually want or need.It is always great to be informed by others what *I* need.
thank you!
;-)
TeX systems are for formatting: you use them to typeset somethingI really cannot see the point. the only thing I would need is a generator that 1:1 tries to move LaTeX into XML, if this is a user written command or not.
which was created/edited/stored/manipulated in (for example) XML.
Because of the way history happened, TeX preceded XML, so we have
a lot of legacy TeX. Sure it would be nice to have a tex2xml which
would do the job (actually there are a few attempts) but if you stop
for a moment to think of the ghastly mess which most authors make
of TeX, you'll realise why there is no such animal right now. Yes,
you could write a conversion from well-formed LaTeX to XML (I actually
did one a long time ago, for SGML) but the instant an author starts
to write her own macros or mess manually with the formatting, the model
breaks and translation becomes virtually impossible. To effect it fully
you'd need to rewrite TeX the program to output XML instead of DVI or
PDF, and you'd *still* be in trouble because most of what TeX formats
carries nothing with it which can be used to indicate markup, unless
you want to go back to the days of <b>, <i>, and <u>.
\begin{Citation}{1234}{456}
blabla
\end{Citation}should become to something like
<comm arg1="Citation" arg2="1234" arg3="456"> blabla </comm>
and \index{Test} to <index>Test</index>
you can then write your own stylesheets to process this to whatever needed. So really no need to rewrite the tex program. far away from this!
and such a generator would be fully sufficient to process available tex documents for some reasons.
the same as LaTeX is no XML format? you seem to mix up a few things here.
The next one will ask, why Cocoon cannot create WML from powerpoint or SVG from Postscript.
Because PowerPoint is not (yet) an XML format, nor is PostScript.
What we need to to be able to go from XML to PDF via LaTeX.
Alex
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