[SCL] Re: [CL] XHTML and CSS for scientific publishing

[Pat Hayes]

>In earlier notes, I said that I have been using
>HTML (or XHTML) for all my word processing needs.
>That is great for web publishing, but until
>recently, there were problems with formatting
>for paper publications.
>
>Those problems have now been solved with OpenOffice,
>which can import MS Word templates and generate
>PDF files.

Er...on the Mac, OS X uses PDF as its native text format for all 
files, so any text-processing application will output PDF. Including 
Wurd, of course, but also including for example BBEdit and 
NisusWriter. You can also use the Unix line-based editors if you 
really want to, and still produce PDF as output.

BBedit on the Mac, BTW, is a positive dream. It is fully scriptable 
(Unix and Applescript) it knows all about HTML and CSS and Tex and 
can display text suitably color-coded, it interfaces smoothly with 
browsers for previewing.  Its preconfigured to interface with 
CodeWarrior and DreamWeaver. Its got Unixy things in it like 
file-difference finders, and it can manage your website files, and it 
is amazingly fast.

Pat
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