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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">William F Hammond via texhax wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Aaron Gray <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aaronngray.lists@gmail.com"><aaronngray.lists@gmail.com></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">Should be titled "Towards a Semantic TeX" maybe.
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Isn't LaTeX already partly semantic?
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It can be, if the user elects to use semantic markup.
Unfortunately, because of its design, it is quite possible to write
a valid LaTeX document that gives absolutely no clue whatsoever as
to the implied semantics. Far better, in my experience, to express
the document semantics in XML and then write a TeX processor that
can handle the chosen XML subset and directly typeset the document
from the XML source. See, for example, <i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eutypon.gr/eutypon/pdf/e2013-31/e31-a02.pdf">Cataloguing
the Greek manuscripts of the Lambeth Palace Library: An exercise
in transforming Excel into PDF via XML using (Plain) XƎTEX</a>.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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