Hello colleagues, I'd like to introduce you TeXML, the XML vocabulary for TeX: http://getfo.org/texml/ http://getfo.sourceforge.net/texml/ A processor (written in Python) translates TeXML source into TeX. | Example of TeXML to TeX translation | | TeXML: | | <cmd name="documentclass"> | <opt>12pt</opt> | <parm>letter</parm> | </cmd> | | TeX: | | \documentclass[12pt]{letter} One of the main benefits of TeXML usage is automatic translation of the TeX special symbols. | Example of translation of special TeX symbols | | TeXML: | | <TeXML>\section{No break}</TeXML> | | TeX: | | $\backslash$section\{No~break\} The TeXML processor supports different output encodings and escapes out-of-encoding chars | Example of translation of non-ASCII characters | | TeXML: | | <TeXML>ТеХ</TeXML> | | TeX in ASCII encoding: | | \cyrchar\CYRT \cyrchar\cyre \cyrchar\CYRH | | TeX in Russian encoding | | TeX If you automatically generate TeX files, there are some benefits to generating TeXML instead of TeX: * you avoid painful handling of TeX special characters, * you don't have to bother about encodings, * you can write error-free code more easily. To expand on the last point, if for example, you want to generate | {\bf bold} One of the approaches is to generate "{", then "\bf " (with trailing space) and then "}". It is easy to miss the space or to forget a brace or write an incorrect symbol. But when you use TeXML, it takes care of it for you: | <group><cmd name="bf"/>bold</group> I hope you will find TeXML useful. Your comments are welcome. Regards, Oleg