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Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey |
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Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend |
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Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:04:45 +0300 |
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On Saturday, 22 October 2005 at 16:44:12 -0500, Alejandro Lpez-Valencia wrote:
> On 10/22/05, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
>>> I use structured FrameMaker at work to write documentation, and one of
>>> the easier ways I've found to get text into it is to paste it into
>>> Vim then pipe lines through scripts that wrap blocks of text in tags
>>> (lists, sections, and so forth). I then import that into Frame. It
>>> works very well, although the technique is probably specific to the
>>> writer and the work involved.
>>
>> That's also a nice example of how painful is writing in XML.
>> You use a totally different tool (Vim) to help another tool that's
>> supposedly made to help you with XML (FrameMaker).
>
> XML was never intended as an input language for human use but as a
> *human readable* machine-level data representation. On the other
> hand, troff, TeX and the macro packages built upon them are
> low/middle level languages that a human is expected to write and
> understand.
Correct. But which is the better approach? If I need to look at the
XML at all, it's not fulfilling its purpose of being a machine-level
representation. Nobody has yet convinced me that this additional
level is worth the trouble, though I'm prepared to listen to arguments
(and often ask for them).
Greg
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- [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Gaius Mulley, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Ted Harding, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Ted Harding, 2005/10/23
Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/20