Re: Second International Symposium on Invisible XML

On 19/08/2026 17:15, Bethan Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Peter - and anyone else interested - wanna start an "invisible LaTeX" 
> project? I think it'd be fun, and would give us a new (and possibly 
> separate) type of invisible markup to talk about.

I'd be up for it, but I suspect it's out of scope for most people.
TBH I'd be happy with the stuff I discussed briefly with Norm a couple 
of years ago, as a LaTeX serialisation for XSLT, or perhaps of iXML. I 
need to go back to my notes and see what the holes in them were, but I'm 
not a mathematician so I can't prove the completeness of any such idea.

> FWIW, as a comparative latecomer to markup, I've not yet met any kind
> of markup that isn't somehow fascinating to me, and it bugs me all to
> heck that people let politics and personal-equipment-measuring
> contests get in the way of recognizing that there's beauty and
> achievement in XML and LaTeX and JSON and Markdown and wikitext and
> LMNL and and and and...
Absolutely. Except I thought COCOA had died, but apparently not.

Incidentally, searching for 'cocoa markup' reveals (apart from a lot of 
chocolate) that there is a project called Markup II, nothing to do with 
anything we have discussed: EU-EAC MARKUP II Programme Coordination Unit 
https://www.eacmarkup.org/sectors/cocoa

Peter

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