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Will the next "TeX tuneup" be in HTML rather than PDF? One can only hope.

• rspeer 12y ago
  This would require that, between now and 2021, it becomes possible to use HTML+CSS to create an exact publishable layout, and someone makes a TeX renderer that uses it. That would be great. I'm not optimistic about it, given that right now we can't even manage to standardize e-books, but yes, one can only hope. (It's not that the TeX tuneup inherently needs to be formatted like a publication; but that's what TeX is for, and it would be silly to expect that the TeX tuneup would not be written in TeX.)
  • apepe 12y ago
    Why are you not optimistic? It takes time, yes, but 7 years is a long time. I personally am optimistic wrt what HTML+CSS can do in terms of typesetting (even PDFs): https://authorea.com/users/3/articles/4675/_show_article https://authorea.com/users/3/articles/4675/_show_article
  • edwintorok 12y ago
    There is an attempt here to convert PDF to HTML while preservering layout: https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/geneve.html https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/geneve.html https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/cheat.html https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/cheat.html
  • Alphasite_ 12y ago
    Well we have PDF.js, so it's evidently possible, if a bit tricky.
• runarberg 12y ago
  Different platforms different designs. The web is not a printed page. TeX was not designed for the web and HTML is not intended for a well typeset print. Although It would be nice if my HTML would compile to TeX when a user presses the `print` button on their browser.