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Re: Writing technical text



Jan writes:
> I know that the file format used by OpenOffice.org is something like a
> zipped bunch of XML files, but surely, you're not suggesting we'll all
> end up writing that format in place of LaTeX...?

Yes.  We do have the consolation that it is a substantial improvement over
Microsoft's garbage.

> If really necessary, I'd rather write LaTeX and then process that to get
> the required XML -- should be possible, something along the lines of
> latex2html.

As almost everyone moves to XML Latex tools will suffer from bitrot and
neglect.

I forsee the day when email messages will have to be XML.
-- 
John Hasler



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