Re: [sc-dev] [Comments?]XML doc? Fwd: html doc

[Scott Wilson <sdwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:53 AM, James McCartney wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:22 AM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>
> > > You mean on Linux you have no WYSIWYG directly manipulable text edit 
> > > format other than plain text???
> > > What about these?
> > > http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/
> > > http://www.abisource.com
> > >
> > > The only thing I don't like about rtf is that it is not diff-able. 
> > > small changes can have global effect on the style tags.
> >
> > what about latex? It is the standard format for scientific text 
> > production
> > and there is plenty of tools for it, also WYSIWYGs.
>
> There are no Cocoa classes to display it AFAIK.
> We can display RTF, HTML, PDF, or plain text.
> XML or SC code can be converted to one of the above.

These are GPL'd. One might be able to extract some classes:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/itexmac/
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html

I'm not sure this is the way to go though. Latex is cool, but probably 
overkill.

S.