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Re: printable online docs
* Bruno Boettcher (bboett@bboett.dyndns.org) wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:21:22PM +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> > Well, if tex may be an intermediate format, it is really easy to number
> true, and there's even a tex implementation for the HP48S somewhere...
> so that's a really cross platform system... :D i can only support that
> :D
>
That's really neat ... I need to dig mine out then ;-)
> > the dvi and pdf. To create html from tex, hevea is a great choice (if
> > you want a look at what can be done with hevea, you might be interested
> > by http://caml.inria.fr/oreilly-book/, which is a translation of a book
> > about ocaml ... the source of the book was in tex, and it got
> > automatically translated to html).
> hmm iuse latex2html, but there are plenty of systems out there... the
> advantage of using lyx (e.g. as a wysiwyig editor) and docbook (XML)
> would be that its easy to convert docbook to latex....
>
I would be perfectly happy with such a solution, since latex is an
intermediate format. Moreover, even when it's produced by lyx, it's
still possible to edit it by hand.
> > The only issue with tex is it's not wysiwyg. But since tex files are
> > simply text files, any text editor works well.
> hmm wasn't lyx making some effort there?
I haven't used it for a while. I don't even know if the project is still
alive ... (quick check) it still is, and quite active it seems.
Alan
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