On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 20:46:01 UTC, Borden wrote: clip ...
What are the general opinions on La(Tex) in terms of code documentation? I only have a superficial understanding of it but it seems to follow many of the principles that DDoc incorporates. It also has the advantage that it's not quite as obtrusive as XML when writing from scratch. Then again, I read on Wikipedia that Knuth's next incarnation of Tex is going to be XML-based. XML seems to be the unavoidable trend in file design.
Can you provide a reference for the claim that the next incarnation of TeX is going to be XML based? I did a quick search and couldn't turn up anything. Perhaps it was some sort of April fool's joke :o) I can think of a lot of ways that TeX/LaTeX could be improved, adding XML to the mix is certainly not one of them! With regards to your question, would La(TeX) be good for documentation? The markup it uses is pretty easy to work with for the most part I think. It is easy to do things like enumerated/itemized lists. Tables are not fun, but I don't know if that is a markup issue as much as just the way La(TeX) handles tables. Cheers, Craig
