On Fri Aug 24 11:04:33 CEST 2007, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Paul Rubin writes: > > > TeX/LateX have been around forever and are well established > > standards, as awful as they are. Why do we want ANOTHER markup > > language? > > 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.
There are alternatives to LaTeX if you are prepared to look for them. One of these is Lout: http://lout.sourceforge.net/ Another option is to use TeX, but with Python as an alternative "macro language": http://www.pytex.org/ David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
