Hallöchen! Evan Klitzke writes:
> On 8/23/07, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Some LaTeX users in Aachen thought about a general-use markup >> language this spring. I wrote some code and a rough project >> description, however, we could need some help. >> >> If you are interested, visit the provisional project page at >> http://latex-bronger.sourceforge.net/gummi/ > > I briefly looked over the specification, and it looks like you're > targeting a LaTeX backend. Are you planning on outputting to LaTeX > and using that to generate e.g. PDF versions of documents, or do > you plan to have a real PDF/Postscript backend? Yes, I plan to use LaTeX as a mere backend slave for getting PDFs. I will *try* to keep the LaTeX readable but mostly for debugging purposes. I don't think that a native PDF backend is helpful on the short run because LaTeX just works well for this (I don't like LaTeX's usability but I do like TeX's typesetting abilities). There is another way to get PDFs which I certainly want to give a try sometime, namely XSL:FO. However, I don't know how feasible direct PDF output is. I'm somewhat scared by line breaking algorithms, hyphenation and all this, though. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (See http://ime.webhop.org for ICQ, MSN, etc.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
