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I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more concerned with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", "this is a footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", "this is a sidebar note". The actual style that is used for a title, a footnote, or a quotation block is defined separately, and layout on a page is done in end-processing. I don't see any way you could separate those format blocks from the text to be blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you? Steve McDonald [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Stuart A. > Yeates > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 4:49 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [External] Re: [CODE4LIB] What manner of creature is LaTeX? > > LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts: formats conceived > and developed prior to the software development insight that separation of > content and code need to be separate. > > Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and style, but > way back when, there wasn't even a consensus for the split between content > and code. > > cheers > stuart