CEDRICS: When CEDRAM Meets Tralics

We describe CEDRICS, a general purpose system for automated journal production entirely based on a LTEX input format. We show how the very basic ideas that initiated the whole effort turned into an efficient system because of the ability of LTEX markup to parametrise simultaneously and without compromise high typographical quality for the PDF output as well as accurate XML metadata with (presentation) MathML formulas. This was made possible by the availability of two entirely independent LTEX source processors with specific focus but full TEX-macro language support: PdfLTEX by Hàn Thế Thành, and Tralics by José Grimm.