I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more concerned
with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", "this is a
footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", "this is a sidebar
note". The actual style that is used for a title, a footnote, or a quotation
block is defined separately, and layout on a page is done in end-processing. I
don't see any way you could separate those format blocks from the text to be
blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you?
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Stuart A.
> Yeates
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 4:49 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> Subject: [External] Re: [CODE4LIB] What manner of creature is LaTeX?
>
> LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts: formats
> conceived
> and developed prior to the software development insight that separation of
> content and code need to be separate.
>
> Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and style, but
> way back when, there wasn't even a consensus for the split between content
> and code.
>
> cheers
> stuart
