[Vim-latex-devel] Re: LaTeX help for Vim

[Hermitte L. <her...@fr...>]

Hello Peter,

* On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Peter Karp <pe...@ka...> wrote:
> Michael would prefer an XSLT solution.  
> My qualms are that an XSLT solution would not give as many people the
> chance to do the translations for themselfs

It is not so different from Perl or awk. Not every body using VIM have
these tools installed, nor VIM compiled to accept such script.

> , because the XSLT setup is much more complex (with makefiles and so
> on), 
With XT, i didn't have to run any makefile to install it.
The only makefile I have is to parse the XML and XSLT files when either
of them has changed.


> I'm (at least now) on a Win32 platform and as I understood Michael the
> XML/XSLT tools are not all available for the win platform. 

XT is available on windows (I'm currently under a WinMe + cygwin box),
and here exist other tools, check the xsl faq on:
    http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html

May be, it lack features, I don't know as I'm a complete newbye with
xslt, but so far it works fine: I've been able to generate xsl:fo files
that I used then to produce PDF files. As the Vim help-filetype format
is very simple, I guess that tools like XT will be fine.

-- 
Luc Hermitte