Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs Powered CAS documentation

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On 6 Jul 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 10:00, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > This seems cool. Probably the best way to proceed would be
> > to export some modified kind of html, with tags for additional structure.
>
> How about use HTML 4.1 or xhtml, and then use "class" attributes,
> perhaps in <div> and/or <span> tags, or just in normal other kinds of
> tags, to lend your own semantics to the markup?  The "class" attribute
> can, with newer CSS, have several class strings inside, separated by
> spaces.  This way, you can have class strings to use for presentation
> via CSS, and others to use for XSL / XPATH; that have semantic
> significance.
>
>  (Poke around on http://devedge.netscape.com/ for a lot about that all.)
>
> The advantage here is that you can create CSS stylesheets for it and
> view it in Mozilla, and/or get at the internal stuff via standard XML
> tools/toolkits.  (libxml and there are ones for C++ based on it.)

Yes, this might be done one day, but it is still too hard now,
because of several subtle differences between the TeXmacs and *ML
data formats.

Thanks for your suggestion, Joris