Templating system for documents

[David J Patrick]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> I've used desktop publishing platforms and authored documents for the
> web, and I've also used LaTeX - none of these systems seems right for
> what I want to do.  Does anyone have a method for creating correctly
> styled documents without terrible pain and suffering?

your pain and suffering will be directly proportional to the 
persnickityness of the "correctly styled document". What standard are 
you working to ? I can think of a few scriptable solutions, mostly 
starting by stripping the docs with unword (or similar) but as they get 
more exacting in output style, they move from a2ps back towards LaTeX 
(which shouldn't be that bad, if you can establish the stylesheet and 
then script most of the rest) and then PDFlatex.

It's like ripping off a bandaid; an "ouch" now, or you can be picking at 
it forever.

djp


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