On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Stephan Schulz wrote:
> For basic markup, HTML tags are quite similar to LaTeX, and nobody
> ever claimed problems with making normal text look good in LaTeX.
Making text look good in LaTeX is a piece of cake, as I know from a couple
of textbooks & innumerable memos & class notes. On several occasions when
I've had to convert LaTeX to HTML, however, I was distinctly aware that I
had switched to an inferior system & of having to compromise frequently in
order to get anything out at all.
The natural response to that is, "Well, you're trying to use HTML to do
something it was never intended to do." But in fact, for Web pages
there's HTML & nothing else. (I'd *love* to do my FAQ in LaTeX.) So
maybe my complaint should be, not the shortcomings of HTML & its
interpreters, but the lack of a generally useful formatting system.
("Generally useful" meaning, roughly, "like LaTeX.")
One more reason to hate the Web...
Tom Parsons
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