On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:28:30 +0100 Chris Monahan wrote: > Michael Adams: > >"Actually HTML is excellent for writers. Writing is about the > >content, not the formatting or pretty setting out. In fact the only > >thing better for writing than HTML is TXT! > ------------------------------ > > plain text means that any structural elements other than linebreaks > are represented by the 'way it looks' ie: a return to the formatting > dilema. As someone who has tried to write a program that tries to > guess the structural semantics from plain text I can suggest that > either a decent full featured document format such as OpenDocument > (used properly with the appropriate styles) or even better a sparse > structural format such as DocBook XML or LaTek source is the format > > HTML is an interchange format designed to be sloppy and imperfect so > as to reflect the tragedies of communicating accross the internet, > authoring or storing documents in it is IMHO asking for trouble.
And IIUC DocBook & LaTeX have converters to produce HTML output anyway from the resultant files. "Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?" "It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right?" - Jeff MacNelly in "Shoe" -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
