[Vim-latex-devel] Re: xml - latex - vim

[Benji F. <be...@me...>]

Peter Karp wrote:
> Hi Benji,
> 
> thanks for your mail to the list. I guess/hope that Michael will be
> uplifted by your offer to join in our efforts for a great
> documentation for latex and will find time to answer soon. :-)

      Yes, he already has.

> Thanks for subscribing to the list. This (only) time I'll respond to
> your private address, because it's not interesting for the list in
> general.

      It *is* of interest to the vim-latex list, so I am cc'ing them.

>>We are thinking of writing the documentation for LaTeX Suite in XML
>>format, so that we can get LaTeX, HTML, and Vim-help output.  If it works
>>out, we can post a link on http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ in case others
>>find it useful.
> 
> I see. Do you already have a nice editor to write the XML files or do
> you use Vim (with plugins) for that job? Vim isn't able to display XML
> files in a tree structured format (with folding), is it?

      I plan to use vim.  It does have some folding abilities.

> I don't know if you already know a way to get from XML to LaTeX. I
> know of one -- tbook:
> 
>     http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I have not used it. I wrote my diploma thesis with standard latex
> (using the koma-script which is a _very_ versatile nice package in
> general with some sugar for german users).

      It is worth looking at.  Thanks for the pointer.

					--Benji