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

[Peter K. <pe...@ka...>]

Hermitte Luc schrieb am 09.11.2002:

> > 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.

Ah, o.k.

> Not every body using VIM have these tools installed, nor VIM compiled to
> accept such script.

??? You mean somebody will not be able to run a simple Vim script foo.vim?
I doubt that. Or did you mean that not everybody has Perl or awk configured
in some way to work with Vim? That's surely right.
 
> > , 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.

? What's XT? 

> > 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

Thanks for the pointer. On a first look I didn't found how that would help
me -- not with a too big effort.

> 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.

As I don't know what XT is I don't understand your e-mail in all details.

My thought was that a Vim script might be the best solution, because every
Vim user who would like to take the XML sources to add personal stuff will
surely have Vim. All other solutions seem not so easy to use for me. Only
awk, as it has a really tiny binary would be almost as good. Every other
solution like Perl and even more XSLT would need more effort and is not
likely to be installed "just" to translate the docs for themself. O.K. one
can argue that not many people would like to add personal stuff. That could
be true. I don't know. _I_ want to be able to add personal content :-)


Regards
Peter