begin  quoting Christian Seberino as of Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:34:03PM -0800:
> 
> On Fri, February 23, 2007 2:51 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> > Jason Kraus wrote:
> >> So why is xhtml a bad thing for open office to use?
> >
> > Because the problem which xhtml services is different, and only very
> > tangentially related, to word processing.
> >
> > XHTML is about content and only slightly about presentation.  Word
> > processing is mostly about presentation and only slightly about content.
> >
> > This means that you need to create absolutely horrible hacks in XHTML to
> > make the page look *exactly* like you want.  And that's normally what
> > people using a word processor want--exact control over how the page looks.
> 
> OK but what standard would you suggest that would be better for word
> processing then?

TeX.

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Beautiful output. Text input. Too bad it's turing-complete.
Stewart Stremler


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