On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > > > > I'm thinking of trying to create an html fixer app. I know, that > > > > > wouldn't be > > > > > the first too, but at least it would be better than this. > > > > > > > > Feel free to do so... I will not stop anyone from doing so. > > > > > > > > Although it might be better to try and fix tex4ht, more people will > > > > benefit > > > > from that :-) > > > > > > Yes, that is what you said with latex2html too. Hacking in that 1.5 MB > > > perl > > > script is the worst programming experience I ever had :-) > > > > In the end, there will be nothing for it but to write our own latex2html. > > If it can convert the docs, it'll convert most latex out there... =) > > Wouldn't it be simpler to take the fpdoc approach? Something alternately > generating latex or html? You could cut out half of the latex macro usage > since you would simply expand them when writing the latex code in pascal. > > It also isolates us from the latex<->external plugin bond which is > apparantly fragile, since nobody seems to be able with a good converter in > ten years. No, because I want to have available the full power of LaTeX. I tried docbook once, but that was a real pain. Everything I write (also my day-time job documents) is in LaTeX, so switching is not an option. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
