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Side: I would love to see a Macro system on top of TeX which has non-fixed-width page as it's base. And generate dvi's that I can convert to epub. It won't di
by fxfan 8y ago
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I would love to see a Macro system on top of TeX which has non-fixed-width page as it's base. And generate dvi's that I can convert to epub.
It won't directly be on top of TeX because TeX itself assumes fixed width but except for the width related directives, all directives would be shared with TeX. Basically everything would be such that existing TeX documents can be converted with little work.
- svat 8y agoMartin Ruckert (of MMIX fame) has been working on something like this: http://tug.org/practicaltex2018/slides/ruckert.pdf http://tug.org/practicaltex2018/slides/ruckert.pdf / https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listauthor.html#Ruckert,Martin https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listauthor.html#Ruckert... It seems he has a talk at the upcoming TUG conference to follow up on this.
- jimhefferon 8y agoFor folks who don't know, that's the TeX Users Group. Worth checking out.
- fxfan 8y agoThis is cool. I just hope he ultimately has a pathway from HINT to epub so that this gains universal use, like how regular TeX sees because it can be made into a pdf