Re: [lojban] Re: The CLL project, technical directions

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 06:35:37PM +0100, v4hn wrote:
> > > given that LaTeX is a necessary evil, maybe it'd be a better
> > > source language?
> > 
> > It's actually trying to do exactly that that led to this current
> > discussion.  It turns out that trying to go from LaTeX to HTML
> > is just as horrendous as trying to go from docbook to PDF.
> 
> The main problem you're trying to solve the whole time is
> generating HTML and PDF from one source. Granted, that's
> non-trivial, though possible.

Quite.  The question is, how would I need to be doing it to get your
help?

> Given that major web-browsers nowadays open pdf just like any html
> file through additional plugins and hyperlinks can be used in pdfs
> as well, what exactly are the reasons for generating HTML in the
> first place?

PDF viewers are, almost without exception, steaming piles of crap?

Mostly it's just that a book-format PDF has completely different
user needs from a web page.  It's broken up by physical pages, which
is unnatural for the web, it doesn't wrap to fit the browser, etc.

It's certainly a possible fallback, but it's pretty weak IMO.

-Robin

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