From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T07:00:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)


On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
> May be you're right. Only can I say that for other "rich  
> formats" (like PDF
> or OpenOffice) generation conversions textile->pdf can be simpler than
> XHTML->pdf (thus, it breaks rule for "the single intermediate format"
> through chains like Markdown->XHTML->Textile->PDF). What do you think?

I think that a translator that is designed specifically for X to Y will
always do better than a translator that goes through an intermediate
language.  A Russian to Spanish translation is going to be better than
a Russian to English to Spanish translation.  The benefit of an
intermediate language is that you don't need n^2 translators only n.
That doesn't mean that in some special/common cases the direct  
translation
might be available and might make a better choice.

Gary Wright