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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In general I agree with Peter's reply (although I would recommend looking at Context if you are interested in interactive documents) but one part concerns me :<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">But HTML does not have the formatting scope of LaTeX, so it depends on your application.<br>
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Use properly, LaTeX and HTML have exactly the same function : to indicate the structure of a document. And whilst they use very different syntaces, they achieve much the same effect. The
<i>presentation </i>of that content is not really the remit of LaTeX, any more than it is of HTML. But at least with HTML there is a second language, CSS, intended to fulfil that need. With LaTeX, unfortunately, there is not. It is just one great big grab-bag,
with content denotation and processing ("formatting") all bundled into one. The informed author will do his/her best to keep the two parts separate; the beginner, or simply the uninformed, will just intermix the two, and the the result will invariably be
"tag soup". Perhaps LaTeX 3 will address this (I think that it will, and I hope that it will) but LaTeX 2e is still very much on a par with HTML before the introduction of CSS.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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