Re: [Refdb-users] User feedback 1

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:58 AM, David Nebauer wrote:

> As I see it with PassiveTeX, the problem occurs when a document 
> _created in XML_ is converted to TeX for outputting.  The problem 
> occurs at the conversion step and is nothing to do with the underlying 
> TeX formatting engine.

The problem is that the FO --> TeX route cuts out all the macro power 
in LaTeX.  So, the code (both in the fo file, and in passivetex itself) 
gets rather complex, and prone to breakage.  This is why I've started 
to just output my XML docs directly to LaTeX code, though I still need 
to solve the bib issue (a big one!).

Bruce