Hallöchen! Wildemar Wildenburger writes:
> [...] > >> Well, because they are awful. ;-) I don't see that there is a >> bunch of already existing projects, in fact, I don't see anyone >> challenging LaTeX at all. However, competition is a good thing, >> and I think there are enough aspects about LaTeX that can be done >> better so that this project is worth being done. > > Well there is ConTeXt <URL:http://wiki.contextgarden.net/>. I've > never actually used it, but from reading the docs I deem it a very > attractive alternative to LaTeX. That's right, I failed to mention ConTeXt, which really is a competitor to LaTeX. I even took one good idea from context, namely the availability of syntax elements in different human languages. However, ConTeXt documents are as much cluttered as LaTeX. ConTeXt is a huge system with the aim of fine control on the PDF layout. Therefore, it is even harder to convert it to HTML than it is for LaTeX. Besides, I never managed to comprehend its documentation. It has its good aspects, too, but these are the reasons why I don't think that it would be a good starting point for improving the situation with plain text document markup languages. 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
