[ale] [OT] Document formatter?

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:01:38 -0400
Kyle Brieden via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I'm a little surprised no one here has offered up LaTeX as a tool...
> I write my resume in LaTeX and maintain a git repo for it.

The trouble with LaTeX is that, without arcane conversion software
(Pandoc, XSLT, etc) or insane amounts of programming, what's written in
LaTeX stays in LaTeX. Turning LaTeX into XML or HTML is a huge parsing
task (or use a complicated converter),  but converting XML to LaTeX is
fairly simple, especially if there aren't too many <div> and <span> in
the XML.

LaTeX is perfect if you know you'll always want paper/pdf. But it's
deficient as a write-once, read everywhere content format.

SteveT

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