Arthur Reutenauer writes:
Maybe it's time that we turn the question the other way round and ask you for reasons to *do* so.
Hi Arthur, as far as I remember, Jonathan explained clearly at the very beginning of the discussion why he is interested in an intermediate format.
What, could you please tell us, is so great about *not* generating the end result directly that we should force ourselves to produce an intermediate file first, [...]
What do you mean with "end result"? Unless I completely misunderstand everything, Jonathan does *not* intend to create PDF at all. I assume that what Jonathan has in mind is something like http://www.mathtran.org/toys/jfine/editor2.html Yes, the PDF backend is extremely expensive in this case, for several reasons. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------