On 5/1/06, Keith Davies <keith.davies@...> wrote:
> I took a run at this a year or two ago. My first step was to go through
> the entire RSRD in Word, applying styles consistently (and adding styles
> to mark 'monster', 'feat', etc. beginnings).

This is very much something I'd like to avoid doing in a word
processor of any sort. I can get by doing very basic in MS Word and
OpenOffice (including semantic marking like this), but I find it so
much easier in a real text editor.

I spent a little time this evening thinking about a LaTeX-based markup
language for this stuff, but there are so many bits and pieces that
beg for markup. Making use of some of this stuff from LaTeX is likely
beyond my level of TeX-fu. I wonder if using XML does make sense for
this, and then use XSLT to generate LaTeX for typesetting.

Whatever the metalanguage, things like this always seem to demand new
markup languages on top of the base, and that always ends up being A
Project.

Has anyone experimented with a specialized XML language for the SRD?


-Fred

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