Michael Stutz wrote:
> It's terrible, isn't it? I'm having a LaTeX problem right now with a book
> that's been published on the Web in html, each .html page corresponding to
> the real page in the physical book. I'm trying to figure out the best way to
> [La]TeX it so that you can print out a dvi or ps copy of it that will look
> like the original book. LaTeX might be a pain to use because of inserting
> images, and I don't feel like spending all this time in LyX (it's like 200
> pages). This is a weird kind of job because I already know what I want the
> final output to look like on the page -- I want the layout to match the
> original, with the same pages, figures, footnotes, etc.
I realize that this will not help with your `4 up' sheet layout
problem, but it sounds to me like you are using LaTeX and HTML precisely
they way they weren't meant to be used. Both languages are meant to
apply a standard format to text documents. You tell the computer what
your text is intended for, and the computer applies an appropriate
format. In this context, LaTeX2HTML does an excellent job of
reformatting a LaTeX document into HTML. The two documents don't look
much like each other, but all the structures, and your PostScript
graphics, are still there. The table of contents links to HTML
sub-pages instead of page numbers, but this is the way it should be.
Some output from this can be seen on my web page, along with links to
the official page.
If you are trying to generate an attractive format, you are using the
wrong tool.
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Howard Gibson
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