From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:38:33 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9600f7e1-496b-4232-a5b8-50bc97d8dd7a@g26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <87tyhfgu5y.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lj2rgkaz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: XQBzyQfeBLgc2RJf6Vcdrg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17354 Date: 2011-01-11T23:38:33+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:14:12 +0100, Ludovic Brenta = a =C3=A9crit: > * separation of form from content (documents should not contain the > definition of styles; they should point to shared style sheets). > > * compatibility with multiple (current and future) professional versio= n > control systems providing the ability to branch, merge and tag > versioned documents and versioned style sheets by multiple people at= > the same time; the only format which in my experience has this > property is Plain Text, possibly with markup! > > * compatibility with multiple (current and future) editors and viewers= > on multiple (current and future) platforms; think of legal > requirements that documents be readable 100 years from now, and the > fact that the only extant documents that have proven to have this > property are on paper, parchment or papyrus. > > * compatibility with search and indexing software. > > * compatibility with cryptographic signatures, for authentication of > documents > > * compatibility with multiple encryption algorithms, current and futur= e, > for secrecy. You must enjoy markup languages a lot so (XML, HTML, and the like). > I don't use office software much, I don't use Windows, and I would Neither I am, I feel this is too much presentation-oriented (and not = enough semantic-oriented, as you noted). Moreover, these presentation = oriented tools are more resource (hardware resources) and time (user tim= e) = consuming than what semantic-oriented editing is. But this is still the major case: people use office applications and wan= t = to use office applications. Presentation can be as a support of = expression, and in the presentation area, MS Office is one of the most = well know and used. Personal note: if you really want presentation and ease of creation and = = use and resilience, HTML+CSS (+SVG, optionally) is really the best. It = happens sometime I wonder why people use so many different heavy formats= = while there is such a powerful and simple single one (and it can even be= = made dynamic for user interaction). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]