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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:39:34 +0100
Svante Signell <svante.signell@???> wrote:

> On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > >  We use LaTEX in technical documents, 
> >
> > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully
> > typeset documents whose linefeeds are determined at compile time,
> > not at read time (like ePub, HTML or Xhtml). The problem is that
> > you can't reasonably convert LaTeX to XML, HTML, Xhtml or the
> > like.
>
> Ever heard about latex2html?


Tell me more about it. Have you used it to convert a significant LaTeX
document to HTML? If so, was it real, semantic HTML, or did the system
do early style to appearance conversions? Do you think the resulting
HTML would be reasonable input to an ePub creation process?

I tried to try it out, but it was very complicated to install (on Void
Linux) and the documentation was at once voluminous and useless.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt
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