[openbeostranslationkit] Re: Structured Text Translat ion

I had a nice long email written up to make this point but since my webmail ate 
it I thought I would just be rather 
terse about it and go into more details if required.

There are two fundamentally different kinds of text
documents.  There are PDF, Postscript, Word, etc.  These
are presentation formats.  They are intended to be
"pixel-perfect".  On the other hand, there are HTML, XML,
which are content, not format specifications.  They are
intended to represented in a device appropriate way.

HTML has gotten a lot of abuse in this respect because
people use it as a presentation format, but it isn't.

This distinction is similar to the one in the image
space between vector-based images and bitmap-based 
images.  You can turn one into the other, but this is
really a rendering/analysis project, not a translation.

Andrew

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