On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:27:58 +0200 >>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Kümmel <[email protected]> wrote:
Excuse me for dropping in so lately... I sent a post about LyX/LATeX vs ConTeXt on users list e days ago stating that I plan to abandon idea to use the latter and 'return' back to winning team. Now, I've discovered this thread about XML as LyX's native format... Peter> I would prefer a more readable format than XML like json, even I Peter> would use Lua, because it is the future scripting languange in Peter> LaTeX, but I assume we could never explain the rest of the Peter> world, why we we don't use beloved XML. So let's use XML. And Peter> validating a XML with a DTD is really an advantage. I did two ~500 pages book with LyX back in '99 (who can remember which version was current at that time) mixing Croatian, English and Sanskrit diacritics all in a one book. Never had any problem to require validating XML against some DTD or schema or how they called it. Prior to that I also tried using Docbook for authopring (I believe the editor was Epcedit, German one) and quickly run away from all XML/XSLT/FOP stuff... Now, I really do not understand what problem would XML format in LyX solve? (YAGNI) Otoh, just enter 'XML sucks' in Google and you will have some nice reading. :-) OT: Can someone explain me what is the aim of latex-3 development in the light of LuaTeX or LuaTeX will be just another implementation? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: CDBF17CA ----------------------------------------------------------------
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