Tower of Babel (Genesis 11): A temple-tower was to be built, rising high to the skies, to demonstrate mankind's power. God gave people different languages to prevent this being built. I think XML just makes God's job much easier:-)
I posted this under a wrong thread,:-( So I have to post it again with some modifications.
Perhaps we should also consider HTML, the most portable document format. It is not as hard as TeX/LaTeX to learn (or to process) and also give you structural composing. It is my choice when I don't have TeX/LaTeX installed on my Win-tel PC. Give me an editor and a web browser, I can print a beautiful paper. (including images)
A lot of debates are focused on Vi v.s. Pico, Emacs, word processor v.s typesetting program. However, many people omit how computer can help us improving our writing. TeX/LaTeX, HTML/XML/SGML are very good at keeping us thinking about What we are writing and how to present the ideas through styles and fonts. That is the weakness of most WYSIWYG programs.
Dupilcating the functions of WYSIWYG of words on Linux is wasting time for Liunux programmers. The killer application should be something which can help people write there documents with easy to use Interface, shallow learning surve and the power of structual composing. HTML is a language in the right direction for structual composing, however, we need better editors. (Vi is enough for me, but I can not teach my wife vi, the only choice for her is notepad.exe -:)
BTW, wp.html is a very interesting article related to this topic.
Perhaps we should also consider HTML, it is the most portable document format. It is not as hard as TeX/LaTeX to learn (or to process) and also give your structural composing. It is my choice when I don't have TeX/LaTeX installed on my Win-tel PC. Give me an editor and a web browser, I can print a beautiful paper. (including images) P.S. BTW, wp.html is a very interesting article. liusn
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Tower of Babel (Genesis 11): A temple-tower was to be built, rising high to the skies, to demonstrate mankind's power. God gave people different languages to prevent this being built. I think XML just makes God's job much easier :-)
Perhaps we should also consider HTML, the most portable document format. It is not as hard as TeX/LaTeX to learn (or to process) and also give you structural composing. It is my choice when I don't have TeX/LaTeX installed on my Win-tel PC. Give me an editor and a web browser, I can print a beautiful paper. (including images)
A lot of debates are focused on Vi v.s. Pico, Emacs, word processor v.s typesetting program. However, many people omit how computer can help us improving our writing. TeX/LaTeX, HTML/XML/SGML are very good at keeping us thinking about What we are writing and how to present the ideas through styles and fonts. That is the weakness of most WYSIWYG programs.
Dupilcating the functions of WYSIWYG of words on Linux is wasting time for Liunux programmers. The killer application should be something which can help people write there documents with easy to use Interface, shallow learning surve and the power of structual composing. HTML is a language in the right direction for structual composing, however, we need better editors. (Vi is enough for me, but I can not teach my wife vi, the only choice for her is notepad.exe -:)
BTW, wp.html is a very interesting article related to this topic.
Perhaps we should also consider HTML, it is the most portable document format. It is not as hard as TeX/LaTeX to learn (or to process) and also give your structural composing. It is my choice when I don't have TeX/LaTeX installed on my Win-tel PC. Give me an editor and a web browser, I can print a beautiful paper. (including images)
P.S. BTW, wp.html is a very interesting article.
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