[texinfo-pretest] Re: LaTeX backend

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

vale.it at tiscali.it writes:

> Is really passing through xml necessary?

Well, it is just very simple to program.  The xml output is already
there, so all I have to do is describe in XSLT how I want these
structures to look like in LaTeX.

> As far as I see so far, it appears that that standard LaTeX
> constructs are very similar to Texinfo constructs.  And still
> LaTeX has some controls on layout, encoding and languages which do
> deserve attention.
>
> What about a simple c++ program?

Yes, this is an option, too.  (I'm happy that someones suggests C++;
normally people paise their Perls, Pythons, and Rubys.  ;)

I want to throw in my personal perpetually underestimated favourite:
flex.  Very simple, produces C++, and *if* one pass turns out to be
enough, flex could do it.  (Even in the other case, but then it's
not very simple any more.)

Tschö,
Torsten.

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