"Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 13.05.04 18:07:04: > > > Well, I tend to say no. First, Jade will complain, no matter where the > > anchor is. > > OK, that is true but since we now have also xml... :-) And other tools to > process the output. >
I know I have persuaded you for my argument, but I would like to expand on this a bit: What do you mean by "since we now have also xml"? Do you suggest that XML tools do not complain about xrefs to anchors, so we could forget SGML and use the XML toolchain? If this is what you mean, then I am against it. Using lyxtox the way it is now, I can produce - a superb PDF, with images, inline graphics, mathematics set by TeX etc. - RTF - HTML, with mathematics - use bibliographic databases like RefDB: http://refdb.sourceforge.net You cannot do all that with XML: - last time I checked, everybody was saying that PDF was problematic with FO etc. O.K., that may not be an issue any more, but I still have to see a PDF like mine, i.e. with images, inline graphics, mathematics set by TeX, bookmarks, thumbnails, hyperlinks, hyperrefs etc. produced with XML tools. - RTF: last time I checked you had to pay to get a commercial tool that produces RTF. Does it also produce mathematics in TeX quality in the RTF? Mine does. :-) - HTML with Mathematics: yes, we have MathML, but I still have to see it being used and accepted. In the meantime, I can show Mathematics on the Web *now*: http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/lyx-writing-mathematics.html That's SGML, not XML. That's mathematics typeset with TeX on the Web, not some other browser plugin - ah, and you don't need any plugins to see this. If you live in India or China or Africa and I write a mathematics treatise, you can still read it. - Last, but not at all least: RefDB. XML support is there, but is relatively new. Do you risk it? I don't. That's why I stick to SGML - for the moment at least. Anyway, I use quite heavy DTD customization layers in order to incorporate both Mathematics (through the DBTeXMath method) and RefDB, so I doubt that we can do the same easily for XML - we will have to write the whole DSSSL customization layer of the DTDs in XSLT...any takers? ;-) Chris -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de
