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Subject: Re: Q) Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > > Passivetex is perhaps more "arcane" than jadetex - either way, it > > I dont agree. it does not have the bizarre intermediate representation > to fight with > Sorry if I came across as being a bit harsh! I did say *perhaps* ;-). It is probably due to my ignorance... .. I don't regard TeX as a general purpose programming language... So the idea of jade spitting out some, all be it, high level, TeX macros - and jadetex simply expanding them, seems fairly natural.... I can look at the output of jade and follow through the expansions of those macros by reading the single jadetex.dtx file... Of course, this doesn't mean that I have a grasp of the big picture of what is going on - but I can see little bits of it and do the odd fix here and there. Passivetex seems to me (and again I plead ignorance - I've spent a lot more time looking at jadetex.dtx) to operate on a different scale - the input is something that is nothing like TeX in syntax or style (fo) - so passivetex has to do a whole lot more - and xmltex comes into play as well... I can only begin to imagine how you can use TeX to get from XML through TeX to DVI... from my perspective passivetex seems more complex. So I can grasp enough of how jadetex works to do a bit of "whacking" on it - which is hopefully all it needs... (assuming that I can live within its broad limitations). ... But I would have to go further up the learning curve to be able to do things with passivetex - which, I assume, needs further development, rather than just a bit of tinkering. Really, I guess what I meant was that as far as my being able to maintain jadetex for my applications, it is for me somewhat less daunting than the new territory of passivetex. Regards, Ian.
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