Re: Writing technical text
Actually, there are a number of different wiki formats available on
different systems, and many of them allow a structured markup which
can be translated into a book form, and perhaps even into docbook/XML
or latex.
If you are not using lots of equations, Docbook/XML is a great file
format to use as an INTERMEDIATE format. It is not so much fun to
actually compose in, because many of the frequently used tags take too
much typing, even in a really nice XML editor.
Which is why I came up with "slacker's docbook" which readily
transforms into standard docbook, but also allows the use of HTML tags
like <p>, <ol> <li> and the like. Using that and a really nice XML
editor makes docbook-development a much easier transition. I now
prefer it to latex.
Docbook/XML can also be converted to LaTEX (although the reverse is not true).
On 10/21/05, m@de-minimis.co.uk <m@de-minimis.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Absolutely true. When I started my blog esquipulas dot homeunix dot com, I
> > was looking for a blog machine using LaTex. It does not exist, but what a
> > chance. LaTex has it all and has had so for years.
>
> I've noticed that Wikipedia uses a funny combination of latex and ?ml as
> its input language. For a blog maybe that's the way to go.
>
> It shouldn't be hard to write a server side script to compile and display
> latex, probably as pdf. I'll write one for you if you like.
>
> Regards, Max
>
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