> From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [plug] LaTeX Rocks (was: PDFs may pose threat to Unix, Linux)
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>
> > Gee, if TeX is to C as LaTeX is to C++, then PostScript is the assembly
> > language both of these languages compile into. :)
More like language translation. PostScript is quite
high level.
> Actually, both TeX and LaTeX compile into the "assembly" language
> called "dvi" -- device-independent typesetting language :) :)
> > After years of doing LaTeX myself, I'm positively frustrated by the way
> > the W3C is handling MathML. It's too clunky compared to TeX/LaTeX.
>
> I second your complaint. The simple integral
>
> \int_a^b { x \over x^2 + a^2 } dx
>
> is too messy when built-up using MathML. Why was MathML so badly
> designed? Why didn't they include the TeX people in the MathML group?
>
> PMana
It is my opinion that most all of the XML-based specs are
quite lame! Even SVG, notwithstanding the fact that the Batik
renderer itself is pretty cool, is a very verbose spec that
takes way too much space to describe simple stuff. Don't even
get me started on the terrible XML manipulation APIs like DOM
and XSLT.
XML is probably good for certain niches, but it most
certainly is not 'sliced bread'. It's just too "lowest
common denominator" to be appropriate in many specialized
cases.
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