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Originally Posted by nick_
Latex can use many packages.
Unfortunately, the handicapped people cannot!
The author has to use the Latex packages anticipating the handicapped person's needs. As an author, have you ever done it?
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No, you're mistaken. If the system were on the device, it could add the package at the request of the user. The simplest one-line sed script could handle such a task. (And no, the user wouldn't have to know anything about the coding thereof.)
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More to the point, XML-based standards are being used across many different industries, and teaching someone TeX-based rather than XML-based markup is an extremely poor usage of their time.
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I actually agree with this, and it's the reason I do think XML-based mark-up will win the day at the end. But I have not been arguing in favor of one mark-up over another. I've been advocating in favor of better typography. I've even pointed out that there is already ways of getting kinda decent typography from xhtml source using, e.g., Prince XML. (But oh no, it creates a PDF! The dreaded PDF!)