Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-23 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Alexander Teinum dixit (2010-08-22, 17:01): I might create a parser for a language that I just invented. It’s somewhat like Common Lisp. (h1 A heading) (p This is (strong awefully) nice.) (h2 Another heading) Or, it could be written this way… (h1 A heading) (p This is

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-23 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:15:40PM +0200, Martin Kopta wrote: Hi everyone, I wrote my bachelor thesis using LaTeX and now I am going to write my master thesis. I would rather avoid TeX and everything TeX based this time. The PDF output of (La)TeX is awesome and I really like that part of

[dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Martin Kopta
Hi everyone, I wrote my bachelor thesis using LaTeX and now I am going to write my master thesis. I would rather avoid TeX and everything TeX based this time. The PDF output of (La)TeX is awesome and I really like that part of it, but writting itself was painful, since the language is pretty

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Kai Hendry
On 22 August 2010 12:15, Martin Kopta mar...@kopta.eu wrote: * input as plain text (NOT xml) * simple syntax/commands/language I suggest markdown and HTML * output as PDF (acceptable as thesis), may be indirectly I recommend the non-free software http://www.princexml.com/ It takes in HTML,

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Alexander Teinum
I want to use Markdown for writing university documents, but it lacks features such as table of contents, list of figures, and reference lists. HTML is not something I would choose for output format, since it doesn’t know the height of a page. Personally, I’d love to see a Markdown-language with

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-22 07:15 AM, Martin Kopta wrote: Hi everyone, I wrote my bachelor thesis using LaTeX and now I am going to write my master thesis. I would rather avoid TeX and everything TeX based this time. consider writing in markdown and transforming via pandoc.

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
If you dislike TeX, use troff. If you dislike troff, just use microsoft word, because you're wrong. Markdown is a crippled pile of meta-shit; it is not a typesetting system. If you're producing anything other than blog posts in markdown you're fucking up. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Alexander Teinum
I might create a parser for a language that I just invented. It’s somewhat like Common Lisp. (h1 A heading) (p This is (strong awefully) nice.) (h2 Another heading) Or, it could be written this way… (h1 A heading) (p This is (strong awefully) nice.) (h2 Another heading) Writing a

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread yy
I'm using a Markdown-like language to write my phd thesis in LaTeX (I have already used it for my master thesis and several scientific papers). Some day I should probably clean all my stuff and release something, but at this moment is a very ad-hoc thing. Basicly an awk script (find attached)

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Jimmy Tang
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote: I want to use Markdown for writing university documents, but it lacks features such as table of contents, list of figures, and reference lists. HTML is not something I would choose for output format, since it doesn?t know the

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Suraj Kurapati
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Martin Kopta mar...@kopta.eu wrote: I am currently looking for some replacement with: * input as plain text (NOT xml) * simple syntax/commands/language * output as PDF (acceptable as thesis), may be indirectly * usable compilator (readable overall output,

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Martin Kopta
Also, work with images is pretty much impossible Can you elaborate? Do you mean that it is hard to draw an image or it is hard to include an image or it is hard to predict where the image will end up in the document? I meant that placing images is pretty much imposible and if you try

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Martin Kopta
[1] http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Very interesting, thank you. dum8d0g pgpeAHfLIXWfY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Martin Kopta
Are you planning on writing any papers (effectively, do you plan to become an academic)? If so, it's worth bearing in mind that some subject areas tend to distribute the conference/journal/arxiv style as LaTeX packages; Good point. TeX being de facto standard in academic field may be

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Martin Kopta mar...@kopta.eu wrote: Problem is designing page layout by your own will, which is kind of /unsupported/. That's because TeX is supposed to do the page layout. If you want such fine-grained control, use a desktop publishing suite like Quark XPress