Am 01.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > Hi, > > of course, any document has structure and formatting, even plain txt-files > have. That's not the point. The point I made, and you wrote it yourself: > - In TeX you explicitly state the structure/format.
In TeX you cannot state the structure because TeX is a low-level typesetting system that offers only a few low-level primitives and a macro language. Macro packages such as LaTeX and ConTeXt Mk II try to simulate a generalized markup language using the macro language, but still there is very little structure in a LaTeX document compared to, say, a DocBook document. > They don't use headlines and bold faces to give their document structure, > they do it to give it Phluff, glamour, whatever. And when they enter their > first headline, section title or whatever special element, they click at the > little "bold"-symbol, then at the little number and change it to 20, then at > the "centering"-symbol. And then, they think: that's not phluffy enough: lets > click at "italics", "underline" and make it "comic sans". Ah, no I hate that > font, make it Arial, ah no, make it back to times new roman. Hey, what about > making it symbol or windings? Who cares how a document has been produced or how it looks like as long as you can read its contents? > Sure, you can create documents in a structured way by using tools other than > tex&co., even by using ms office. But children and students can't. And if you > want children to do, ms office&co. won't let you. Use TeX to demonstrate, to > make clear as sky the difference: > > structure. I don't know why this discussion should be relevant at all, but no: there is nothing more of the so-called "structure" in a LaTeX document than in a Word document. Both systems support formatting *and* semantical markup. For most documents semantical markup is irrelevant, and for those where it's relevant it can easily be done in Word with things like formatting styles. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
