Re: Lout parsing

[Peter da Silva]

> Peter da Silva writes ("Re: Lout parsing"):
> > What's wrong with using different symbols for the two different kinds of
> > period? It's not so often that you use a dot other than at the end of a
> > sentence, why not \. it?

> The whole problem with TeX's way of doing things was that people don't
> like having to type `weird' things for perfectly normal situations,
> like abbreviations.

The problem is that "having to type weird things for perfectly normal
situations" is exactly what a markup language is. People who don't want
to type "weird things" aren't going to be using troff, TeX, or Lout in
the first place.