From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Hubert Chathi <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Leslie Lamport has a foot in the 21st century
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:39:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737687b5y.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vawzhr2z.fsf@desiato.home.uhoreg.ca>
On 2016-10-11, at 16:56, Hubert Chathi <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote:
> I don't know much about LaTeX3, but it looks like it's still targeting
> print, and so it would have the same problems. Not only that, but the
> existing LaTeX-to-HTML tools might not work with LaTeX3, so if you're
> getting rid of half of your toolset, why switch to LaTeX3 instead of
> some other format that targets HTML more directly?
>
> I'm sure that there may be good reasons for sticking with LaTeX
> (e.g. being able to easily copy-and-paste into for-print articles,
> familiarity with the language, etc.), but there are also disadvantages,
> and it will be interesting to see what factors determine what type of
> system, whether it be LaTeX or something closer to HTML, ends up being
> used to write hierarchical proofs.
>
> I suspect that it will be a long time before hierarchical proofs gain
> much popularity though, given that Lamport has been talking about them
> since at least the 90's, and I haven't seen one "in the wild" yet. So I
> don't know how much of a factor it will be "killing" LaTeX, if LaTeX
> ever does get killed.
Well, one might think that after about 20 years, LaTeX 2.09 should be
already dead. It's not. Academia has a lot of inertia. So we're
probably stuck with LaTeX2e (for better or for worse) for at least
several decades.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-24 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-08 8:40 Leslie Lamport has a foot in the 21st century Thierry Banel
2016-10-08 15:50 ` Grant Rettke
2016-10-08 16:38 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-10-09 14:26 ` Hubert Chathi
2016-10-09 16:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-11 14:56 ` Hubert Chathi
2016-10-11 15:23 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-10-24 16:39 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-11-11 22:20 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2016-10-09 17:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
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