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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: "Brian M. Scott"
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:49:30 -0400
Newsgroups: sci.lang
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:28:00 +0200, Ruud Harmsen
<realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:tqhdf2ddrguh1bc0a4sakig2o475torbf1@xxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

[...]

>>You'll continue to talk at cross purposes until you realize
>>that 'table' is not just a data-processing concept.  A great
>>many of the uses to which HTML tables are put, for instance,
>>do not produce anything that Peter would call a table.

> Probably, yes. So what would he call them?

The ones that I specifically had in mind come under the
generally heading of formatting tools; unlike tables in the
traditional sense, they aren't part of the content at all.

Brian

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