On 10/8/20, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 02:38:04 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: >> But even then, i don't particularly like the idea of designing >> syntax with one specific output format in mind. > > I share your conservatism. I just don't see a better alternative. > > I think it's accurate to say -ms achieves device independence > only by not exploiting any device-specific features.
But in some sense, all the classic macro packages already support two different devices (the terminal and a paper-like format, whether embodied by PostScript or PDF) that have overlapping but not identical feature sets and macros. Extending this idea to allow another category of output -- especially one as important to the modern world as HTML -- isn't breaking new conceptual ground.
