SVG in 3?

[Michael Ashton]

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:51  AM, mark wrote:

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> On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 04:06 AM, Andrew Shugg wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Erm, I think you need to take another look at LaTeX.

I have. PDFTeX looks very useful to me, and ConTeXt looks interesting. 
Thanks very much to those who pointed it out.

> The current "default" setup on MacOS X is entirely geared towards 
> producing PDF output and acceptance of PDF files as embedded graphics. 
> Its been like this for years.
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> As for making the output look like you want it to, depending on what 
> you want, you may want to take a look at ConTeXt.

I'm more interested in printed output, and ConTeXt seems to be heavily 
geared toward making fancy interactive PDFs, but I'm interested.

> I like DocBook too, but its integration and use of PDF is in no way 
> superior to that in LaTeX. If anything, it involves more work.

I think it's too verbose. I greatly prefer typing in LaTeX. I see 
DocBook as more of an intermediate format. Its primary advantage to me 
is that it's XML. XML allows me to invent specialised markups and 
"little languages" which I can then process easily.

I prefer ReStructured Text to both of them, though, and it allows XML 
to be embedded and referred to; and the tools for it are written in 
Python, and are specifically designed to be extended.

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