On Friday, 31 July 2015 15:27:19 UTC+1, David Farmer wrote:
>
>
> In most cases, MathBook XML is not more cumbersome than
> LaTeX, particularly if you are using an editor which
> automatically inserts closing tags.
You don't need a closing tag that can be inserted by software,
as certainly is the case for \section or \item..
(unless you spent a large part of your life writing HTML or XML by hand,
of course :-))
I wish Knuth did review (X)HTML format proposals for sanity...
> For example, in LaTeX
> \section{...} starts a section, and you do not have to
> explicitly indicate where the section ends. In MBX, you have
> to supply the </section>.
>
> MBX was designed to be written by human authors. Take a look
> at the source of Judson's book!
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Friday, 31 July 2015 02:17:27 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:59:54 PM UTC-7, parisse wrote:
> > I had a quick look, but I'm still a little bit confused
> > how the source are written. Do you write your source
> > files in xml or have you some kind of converter from a
> > latex source file?
> >
> >
> > MathBook XML is the "XML application" I am designing. It is a
> collection
> > of XML "tags" meant to be usable for an author: chapter, section,
> > theorem, example, exercise, etc. I have written converters to LaTeX
> (for
> > PDF, print) and to HTML. Other conversions are possible and planned.
> > It's main purpose is for authors creating new content.
> >
> > XML? I wish pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) could handle conversions to and
> from
> > your format...
> > Do people really want to write XML by hand? I tried it once (GAP docs
> can be
> > prepared using XML) and was not amused.
> >
> > Just wondering,
> > Dima
> >
> >
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