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Nit? Pick! (Score:1)

by nkuitse (193) on 2005.12.09 11:31 (#45056) Homepage Journal

(La)TeX is the COBOL of markup language

Well, TeX is a typesetting language and LaTeX is a typesetting language pretending to be a markup language. Still a nightmare, but…

Have you tried ConTeXt [pragma-ade.nl]? Much less nightmarish, in my experience.

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- Re:Nit? Pick! (Score:2)
  
  by TorgoX (1933)
  
  Yes, for all new work, I'd suggest that people use ConTeXt or something similar. But parsing existing (La)TeX documents is still a nightmare.

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