brian@ditmela.oz (Brian May) (10/11/89)
Hi all, anyone out there developing/ developed applications for ODA (ie conversion from TEX -> ODA -> TEX), or any other WPs or text formatters? Any info and/or dialogue would be useful. Brian May. (brian@ditmela.oz)
guy@guy.uucp (Guy Streeter) (10/16/89)
brian@ditmela.oz (Brian May) writes: >anyone out there developing/ developed applications for ODA (ie conversion from >TEX -> ODA -> TEX), or any other WPs or text formatters? I don't quite see the point. ODA is not a markup language. There isn't necessarily enough information even in the TeX input to make useful ODA input. LaTeX source might be translated a little easier. The type of information in ODA is "here is a title, here is a chapter header, here is a paragraph." The information in TeX and most other WPs is more like "here put a character in this font, there put a character in that font." I don't see how you could translate between the two. Guy Streeter b11!guy!guy@ingr.com ...uunet!ingr!b11!guy!guy