Re: [hlx] Paragraphs in version 2.9

[tom s. <to...@as...>]

Otfried Cheong <ot...@cs...> wrote:

> I'm not convinced it is worth the effort to rewrite a Latex parser in
> emacs-lisp, though.  Elisp is very good at manipulating text in
> buffers, I don't think it's equally good at imitating Latex to a
> larger extent. If you want a Latex parser, why not use one of the
> existing ones (there is a Python parser that will give you a complete
> document tree you could use as a basis for generating XML/HTML).  

Can you share a pointer to this?  I also know of a Perl parser: 
http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/.

>  It
> may be easier and more useful to base a new version of Hyperlatex on
> such a parser than to redo everything in Elisp.   I believe there is
> also an existing Latex->Html converter written in Haskell. 

Anything you know about this would be of interest, too.  I am a lisp
programmer, if I'm anything, but would be interested in learning about
more modern functional languages.  A compiled language would introduce
distribution and support issues not present with an interpreted
language, though.

> Finally,
> tex4ht uses the Tex engine itself - the cleanest to parse TeX input,
> of course.  However, it's way of extracting the XML appears quite
> awkward to me.

tex4ht is a very strange beast, and I've never had much luck with it.  

 -tom


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