> Gregory Pittman wrote: > > Craig Ringer wrote: > > > >> Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> > >>> > > I do quite a bit with LaTeX, but for archiving purposes I > > just keep the .tex file; it has everything I need for that purpose. > > Absolutely. That makes perfect sense for archival. > > I don't necessarily think it'd be reasonable to expect to be able to > send your .tex file to a printer and have them deal with making it into > a PDF though - they'd need all the fonts and images, any macro packages > you're using, etc. ick. Archival is a very different thing to submission > to a printer, and has different requirements. That's my point. >
Nobody has mentioned that dvi was supposed to be the 'device independent printer standard. How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml? Is there a dtd for Scribus? (It might read in Word Perfect for example which has a very good import system including modules for sgml docs.) The TUGBOAT community loves the universality of TeX, with good reason Bart Alberti
