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. I find the present day fascination with HTML/XML as another manifestation of the proverbial "he who only knows to use a hammer, thinks that every problem is a nail". A good dose of SGML hand-coding should sober up anyone any day. -- Alejandro López-Valencia _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
