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
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> 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