[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Muse (and mailing list) status update

[Michael Olson]

Frederik Fouvry <address@hidden>, address@hidden writes:

> An alternative may be to define a LaTeX style to typeset muse
> output.  This requires that you output the structure from Muse, and
> have LaTeX take care of what it exactly looks like (just like CSS in
> HTML).  E.g. for image-with-desc, \imageWithDesc{...} is output, and
> the LaTeX class contains a definition like
>
> \newcommand*{\imageWithDesc}[1]{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{#1}}
>
> That makes your work easier: all that needs to be done to add a
> new command is to add it to the mapping, and add in a stub
> definition (this makes LaTeX just ignore the command):
>
> \newcommand*{\myNewMuseCommand}[1]{#1}
>
> Other people can then take care of what it should look like when
> printed.  I can send you a first version based on the current
> mapping if you like.

For now, I'd prefer to output LaTeX markup that looks familiar to
those that are used to LaTeX quickstart guides.  Commands like that
might confuse them.

This does sound interesting, though.  If you are willing to submit
some source code for this, I'll take the concept into consideration,
perhaps as a separate "latex-muse-syntax" (or similarly-named)
publishing style.  Or if the concept seems like the Right Thing,
replace the "latex" publishing style with your version.

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