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A LaTeX-generated PDF along with the .tex file used to generate it solves all the problems mentioned by the parent. Now to convince casual users that LaTeX is w
by solveit 7y ago
A LaTeX-generated PDF along with the .tex file used to generate it solves all the problems mentioned by the parent. Now to convince casual users that LaTeX is worth learning... that's a completely different problem.
- j-pb 7y agoNot true, I've seen the most abhorrent pdfs generated by latex in academia. When I was working in the digitization department of a public university library we realized that we need to handle pdf just like every other scanned page, rasterize then OCR.
- scarejunba 7y agoThat doesn't make sense. In the case of a PDF+Tex bundle you just run the TeX through Pandoc and you have a neat result. Why would you OCR the PDF when you can just the raw markup?
- j-pb 7y agoBecause a.) almost no Latex document is published as Pdf+Tex, it's either PDF or die, and b.) latex has a bazillion Turing-complete extensions, that don't make sense semantically until you render them.