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Date: 2012-05-10T10:43:40+01:00
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> Why not use Latex? Then you get the full 30 years of latex
> scientific publication tools that Latex has, with all the
> indexing, table of contents, bibliography, page numbers,
> cross referneces, tables, figure, graphics, etc.. and
> zillions of latex packages that comes with it for free.
>
> Then use Latex2html to convert everything to HTML. Use
> pdflatex to generate PDF, generate .ps etc... all from
> the SAME plain text source files.  see
>
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/
> http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/conversions
>
> I do not know why any one will choose a different tool
> to publish anything. It is all there ;)

For me, at any rate, latex2html produces incomplete and nasty-looking
output. I agree about pdflatex, though (especially with hyperref).