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I found it hard to understand the point of this. It talks about imitating the “look and feel” of LaTeX documents in HTML, but fails to do so. If the article its
by leephillips 5y ago
I found it hard to understand the point of this. It talks about imitating the “look and feel” of LaTeX documents in HTML, but fails to do so. If the article itself is an example, it’s the familiar low-quality browser-rendered HTML typography.
- tasogare 5y agoAlso "LaTeX look and feel" doesn't mean anything to start from: Latex documents look vastly different depending on which template they use. A lot of conferences and journals allow for both Word and Latex files to be sent, and it's impossible to guess in the output which tool was used to author a given paper.
- jimhefferon 5y agoYes, LaTeX documents could have many different document classes. But many, many authors stick with the defaults, which a person could as a shortcut call the "LaTeX look."
- choeger 5y agoI am convinced if you give me a Word and a LaTeX paper from the same conference, I can tell you which one is from the typesetting tool and which one from the word processor.
- azangru 5y agoFrom the abstract: > The resulting HTML document already contains prerendered math formulas, so browsers won't have the burden of math rendering via scripting. It wants the math support of latex in an html document generated from the markdown source file.
- leephillips 5y agoKaTeX already provides pre-rendering of math. If you want to start with Markdown you can use Pandoc. Then you can get TeX, HTML, and even Word formats from the same source. This project seems to only work with one particular editor, as well.