Re: Re: Project: texi2latex

the best would be the bidirectional conversion texinfo <-> xml.

regarding equations and maths and info: well, the trick would be just to =
describe the math info cannot represent... as a matter of fact the latex =
math conventions are complex but quite easy to understand.

\fract{1}{2+3} in Latex would be=20
1/(2+3) in info...

and so on...

the real advantages latex would give is the possibility to pass commands =
regarding the hardcopy layout as well as input and font encodings, etc. i=
f we could find the minimum common denominator of latex and texinfo lexic=
al structures it would be a good leap frog.

cheers,

valentino
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:57:29 +0100
Torsten Bronger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hall=F6chen!
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> Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> writes:
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> >>> I came over these latex constructs which aren't TeX:
> >>> \begin{equation}, special graphs made in xfig with latex, things
> >>> produced with \usepackage[all]{xy} (that was a table with
> >>> variations of a function).
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> >> However, this is only significant if you convert Texinfo directly
> >> to LaTeX with no XML inbetween, isn't it?
> >
> > Well it should also be available with xml inbetween ? If there are
> > features only available in LaTeX, then some LaTeX code could be in
> >
> > @latex
> > latex specific constructs...
> > @end latex
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Then the xsl would keep those lines as is.
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> I think the best way is to regard XML as a "final target" of
> makeinfo, in contrast to keeping the conditionals of the Texinfo
> source in it.  After all, you can't make assumptions about further
> processing of the XML file.  It can be LaTeX, or HTML, or something
> completely different.
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> I agree that the Texinfo-->XML conversion is irreversible then.  The
> alternative would be to pass the *all* conditionals 1:1 to XML, and
> let the following processor decide what to do.  But I'd prefer the
> first variant.
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> Tsch=F6,
> Torsten.
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> --=20
> Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus
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