Editing TeX (section)

=== XML publication ===
It is possible to use TeX for automatic generation of sophisticated layout for XML data. The differences in syntax between the two description languages can be overcome with the help of [[TeXML]]. In the context of XML publication, TeX can thus be considered an alternative to [[XSL Formatting Objects|XSL-FO]]. TeX allowed scientific papers in mathematical disciplines to be reduced to relatively small files that could be rendered client-side, allowing fully typeset scientific papers to be exchanged over the early Internet and emerging World Wide Web, even when sending large files was difficult. This paved the way for the creation of repositories of scientific papers such as [[arXiv]], through which papers could be 'published' without an intermediary publisher.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=O'Connell|first1=Heath|title=Physicists Thriving with Paperless Publishing |journal=Hep Lib.web.|year=2002 |volume=6|page=3|arxiv=physics/0007040 }}</ref>