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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On 13/06/2020 11:40, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> You might ask, why not use Latex editor?

No at all. With all due respect to Knuth, TeX is a bad language.

> But to do this, one has to be able to write, inside the Ada editor,

No. See above. The answer to the first question implies the answer to 
the second one. Do a higher level abstraction to your LaTeX elements in 
the form of Ada subprograms. Call these subprograms to "program" the 
document.

P.S. I had same issue with HTML, which is also an incredibly bad 
language. I used Ada generating calls instead of inserting HTML tags 
using Ada literals.

P.P.S. The additional advantage of this approach is that you could 
set/change styles on top of it without usual ugly ways (macros in TeX, 
styles in HTTP).

P.P.P.S. I find the idea of markup language inherently flawed. Neither 
of hundreds if not thousands existing markup languages offers 
readability or efficiency. They might be good for small hacks like texts 
of GUI labels, but on a larger scale they do not work without a massive 
tool chain to deal with the mess.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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