SVG in 3?

[Andrew Shugg]

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Michael Ashton wrote:
> LaTeX is great, and offers much of this sort of thing right now, but 
> it's too hard to make its output look like I want it to. None of the 
> LaTeX tools really play nice with modern stuff like PostScript and PDF. 
> I like PDF; LaTeX isn't even aware of it.

How about DocBook?

Admittedly, it's a high-level documentation description language, not a 
typesetting language like LaTeX.  But it's XML, and I'm pretty sure that 
TeX/LaTeX can be generated from DocBook (as well as PostScript, PDF, 
HTML, RTF, plain text, flavoured milkshakes, etc etc etc).  So if there 
were specific layout things that you couldn't get (for whatever reason) 
using DocBook and stylesheets, you could pass those bits through 
LaTeX ... but I'd imagine that you could do "pretty much everything" 
without LaTeX (wonderful as it is, and much as I love it).

Andrew.

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