On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 2:16 PM Michal Hoftich replied to Nasser Abbasi: [snip] > Are their technical reasons for this choice? What can LaTeXML do > which tex4ht can not? > I think LaTeXML uses a different approach than TeX4ht for the conversion, so while we can easily support custom commands and packages, or translate chunks of the document to pictures, we are also more likely to get fatal errors because of package clashes. So just using a package in your document (for example, recently I had to fix the PDFX package), can lead to a fatal error. This can be difficult to debug for a lot of users, and even more problematic if you have thousands of documents from various users, all of them using random packages. You will just get a big number of documents that fail.
Thousands of documents from various users using random packages with no umbrella of discipline is the reason for my suggestion that the LaTeX community should begin to use LaTeX profiles as outlined in my talk in San Francisco at TUG 2010 <https://www.albany.edu/~hammond/presentations/Tug2010/>. The author of a document using a LaTeX profile that is supported by both LaTeXML and TeX4ht would be able to have confidence that their [sic] document would pass correctly through both systems as well as through the system of any publisher supporting the profile. -- Bill William F Hammond Email: gel...@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/william.f.hammond http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/ πΊπππππππππ πππππππππππ ππππππ πππ πππ ππππππ ππππππ
