Re: printable online docs

["Erik Jessen" <ejessen at adelphia dot net>]

OK, so if tex is the recommended original format (anybody disagree with this
statement - please let me know), then
a) where's a binary of tex for Windows?
b) Where can I find a manual for it?

Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Schmitt" <alan.schmitt@inria.fr>
To: <xconq7@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: printable online docs


> * Bruno Boettcher (bboett@bboett.dyndns.org) wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:21:22PM +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> > > Well, if tex may be an intermediate format, it is really easy to
number
> > true, and there's even a tex implementation for the HP48S somewhere...
> > so that's a really cross platform system... :D i can only support that
> > :D
> >
>
> That's really neat ... I need to dig mine out then ;-)
>
> > > the dvi and pdf. To create html from tex, hevea is a great choice (if
> > > you want a look at what can be done with hevea, you might be
interested
> > > by http://caml.inria.fr/oreilly-book/, which is a translation of a
book
> > > about ocaml ... the source of the book was in tex, and it got
> > > automatically translated to html).
> > hmm iuse latex2html, but there are plenty of systems out there... the
> > advantage of using lyx (e.g. as a wysiwyig editor) and docbook (XML)
> >   would be that its easy to convert docbook to latex....
> >
>
> I would be perfectly happy with such a solution, since latex is an
> intermediate format. Moreover, even when it's produced by lyx, it's
> still possible to edit it by hand.
>
> > > The only issue with tex is it's not wysiwyg. But since tex files are
> > > simply text files, any text editor works well.
> > hmm wasn't lyx making some effort there?
>
> I haven't used it for a while. I don't even know if the project is still
> alive ... (quick check) it still is, and quite active it seems.
>
> Alan
>
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