[OS X TeX] Publicon Trial available

[M. Tamer =?ISO-8859-1?B?1g==?=zsu]

Thank you Mark, for the explanation. I was interested in Publicon, because I
thought I could use it as a tool to generate a document that can then be
"exported" as both LaTeX and XML. I am in trial mode right now anyway and I
can edit the stylesheet or perhaps generate one of my own based on theirs.

Thanks again.
-- 
M. Tamer Ozsu
University of Waterloo


> From: Mark Smith <mark at bbprojects.net>
> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:43:12 +0100
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Publicon Trial available
> 
> M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
> 
>> The download and installation went well for me. However, when I open a new
>> document in LaTeX_Article class, the frontmatter does not contain an
>> abstract. I could not figure out how to add one and the help did not help.
>> Anyone know?
> 
> The standard LaTeX Article class stylesheet in Publicon (stupidly) doesn't
> appear to allow you to do this. I haven't used Publicon for producing LaTeX
> (seems a bit backasswards to me). I have had some exchanges with Wolfram since
> the trial became available and I think its fair to say that they know that
> their LaTeX stuff needs a lot of work. They are planning to add a LaTeX
> importer too.
> 
> In the meantime, you could get this to work by editing a copy of the relevant
> stylesheet. Its quite easy if you know a little XML and CSS. There are some
> rough instructions in the help browser.
> 
> FWIW, I would not recommend using Publicon to produce LaTeX on OS X. There are
> better ways. Its (Publicon's) attraction lies (for me) in its XML backend and
> the fact that its likely to catch on in a fairly big way with Publishers that
> have Mathematical, Physics, Chemistry or Biomedical journals in their
> portfolios. They will probably either provide their own stylesheets, get
> Wolfram to knock them up or write their own transforms that run on one or more
> of the standard stylesheets.
> 
> Its a fairly nice document model and has some nice features, but the UI is
> very shoddy at the moment.
> 
> mark.
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