Co-developers wanted: document markup language

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

David Boddie writes:

> On Fri Aug 24 11:04:33 CEST 2007, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> Paul Rubin writes:
>> 
>>> TeX/LateX have been around forever and are well established
>>> standards, as awful as they are.  Why do we want ANOTHER markup
>>> language?
>> 
>> Well, because they are awful.  ;-) I don't see that there is a
>> bunch of already existing projects, in fact, I don't see anyone
>> challenging LaTeX at all.  However, competition is a good thing,
>> and I think there are enough aspects about LaTeX that can be done
>> better so that this project is worth being done.
>
> There are alternatives to LaTeX if you are prepared to look for
> them.  One of these is Lout:
>
>   http://lout.sourceforge.net/

I know Lout but its syntax is not simple enough to me.  Besides, it
does not enforce semantic markup.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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