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From: Nix on 3 Dec 2007 20:44 On 3 Dec 2007, Ian Rawlings verbalised: > I quite like LaTeX personally although I've not used it in ages.. If > I ever get around to writing my auto-documentation system there's a > good chance it'll use LaTeX as the rendering engine. There's nothing > I've used so far that is quite so good when it comes to > cross-references for example, although tweaking the report layout > isn't always as easy as it could be. I'd be inclined to say that LaTeX is quite unsuited to being a rendering engine: it nails too much of the typesetting down in unreadable macros. Raw TeX, now, that's what it was built for. :) > It's one of those things, like perl, that you have to use regularly > though or the knowledge leaks away with amazing speed! Yes, definitely. I don't use it enough, although I plan to learn ConTeXt one of these days. -- `The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings describes USENET
From: Ian Rawlings on 4 Dec 2007 02:47
On 2007-12-04, Nix <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote: > I'd be inclined to say that LaTeX is quite unsuited to being a rendering > engine: it nails too much of the typesetting down in unreadable macros. > > Raw TeX, now, that's what it was built for. :) Yes, I started leaning towards that way of thinking towards the end of my LaTeXing days and even bought raw TeX books to prepare me for it, but the expansion of my employer meant that I had to work with windows users and they couldn't handle anything other than Word documents. I work for myself these days though and really need an automatic documentation system for a few tasks. > Yes, definitely. I don't use it enough, although I plan to learn ConTeXt > one of these days. Never even heard of it! (has a look) Interesting. Although really it would have to be a single target with extra features to allow additional use to be made of it by a documentation system, rather than just a single end-renderer. I'd like to be able to render PDF and HTML, you can with something like context but I'd quite like to be as non-specific as possible with the end rendering. I've not looked closely at all though, not at that stage yet so might go for it later in the job. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! |