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> For latex, you choose your target at the start: A4 paper? Screen presentation? A0 poster? You can change that as you go along.

• naikrovek 2y ago
  > You can change that as you go along. that's not the point they were trying to make. you may need to change the display target for every viewer.
  • eru 2y ago
    That's an interesting point. HTML is usually distributed 'as source'. TeX (or LaTeX) is usually compiled to some other format first, before being distributed.
    • naikrovek 2y ago
      Yeah, I wonder how good TeX renderers would have gotten if page rendering happened client side in a browser.
      • eru 2y ago
        TeX worked (and works) in batch mode on ancient hardware. Today's computers are so much faster, that this should actually be fast enough to run interactively without having to change or optimise too much.
        • naikrovek 2y ago
          Why does TeX take so long to render documents today, then?