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Re: Programming Lout Backends
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Programming Lout Backends |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:36:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't think Lout is well suited to the job of being a universal
> document markup language. I can't think of any language that is
> well suited to that task, except Nonpareil, which does not exist yet.
Hmm, that looks like an overstatement to me. ;-)
Clearly, Lout, LaTeX, and similar systems are too "low-level" for the
job, because they are too much biased towards printed output.
However, DocBook, Texinfo, AsciiDoc, Skribilo (shameless plug ;-)) and
similar high-level markup languages appear to be well suited. These
systems were specifically designed to allow output to a variety of
formats, both printed and on-line, with a hopefully simpler input
language than Lout, LaTeX et al. The counterpart is that they are not
too agile when it comes to doing graphics, which is probably OK for
e-books anyway.
Thanks,
Ludo'.