From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-06-10T06:29:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Project idea: Ruby Press

On 6/8/07, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
>
> That said, it's plausible that a Ruby DSL frontend to TeX (or, more likely,
> LaTeX) would be useful to someone, in much the same way that RJS is a
> frontend to (Prototype-/Scriptaculous-backed) JavaScript. I think it would
> be a terrible waste to reimplement all the well-tuned, well-tested, and
> pretty much bug-free typesetting/flowing/layout TeX/LaTeX provides.

I've had good experiences using ruby to generate lout - it's more
pleasant to work with than {la,}tex since machine generation was one
of its design goals.

martin