<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5">Moreover, I wonder whether another package that I may load up to CTAN next days<br>
would be useful for this purpose. It does not create any DVI, but writes HTML files<br>
directly by expanding macros made just for this purpose.<br>
TeX's typesetting machinery isn't involved at all.<br>
It reads what you type a little differently to TeX, but it's fast and simple.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This sounds very interesting, and I'd certainly like to try it when it's available.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In another sense, though, TeX's mark-up language, or even LaTeX's, do not seem to be the best qualities these systems have to offer. While I have often wished that XML and HTML had macro facilities, they are, in other respects, much cleaner syntaxes, and much easier to parse, than TeX's or LaTeX's.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I like the idea of a simple, unobtrusive, neutral mark-up that can be processed into print formats, Web formats, etc. The closest thing I've seen is the emacs Muse package (<a href="http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html">http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html</a>). Unfortunately, while Muse mark-up is simple, using Muse requires a bit of Emacs tinkering, and Emacs is anything but simple to the novice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(NB: This doesn't help the original poster's concern about re-using bib data. I was just waxing philosophical.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">----<div>
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