Re: PDF Links possible?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Myron Gochnauer wrote:
> There are a few people who used to use XyWrite with LaTeX. It should
> not be an impossible task to create an XPL program that would translate
> XyWrite documents into LaTeX, especially if you begin to use XyWrite
> styles in a more "structured-document way" (probably not a bad thing in
> any event).
Yes, indeed. The problem with UseStyles is that if you then have to
convert to some other format (Weird or WordIMPerfect), Xy's nice clean
styles get all mucked up with the other program's redundant, cluttered
garbagey ones. But for something that's going to stay in Xy or get
output to PDF, they are great. Especially the fact that fonts are
inherited. So I define everything but the font, they stick one in
(depending on whether I'm printing to PostScript or HP) last thing.

You could always use a special mode, such as ≪MDBR≫ to
> identify hyperlinks. Or perhaps a custom-made printer file would work
> better...
> Now that I think of it, ConTeXt might be a better choice than LaTeX
> (same basic approach, though, but a different variation of TeX).
> Anyone out there using LaTeX with XyWrite? I used to, but I normally
> kept the LaTeX markup codes, using XyWrite only as an editor and home
> base for running LaTeX software.
>
> Myron
IIRC, Martin Osborne once reported using Xy as a front end for LaTex.
And I toyed with the idea of a printer driver for converting Xy to
HTML (before I discovered the U2 SA/HTM routine). Thanks for the lead
about ConTeXt, which I had not heard of.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx