Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/12/08 11:26

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> To suggest ways forward, I suggest that
> the OP, who clearly wants to publish material on the Web, learns LaTeX.

Well, this drifts somewhat off the topic of some of the crossposted
groups, but our physicists are accustomed to writing their
publications in some form of latex, and I can say that when I was
handling the web-ifying of their publications, several years back, I
was (for the most part) getting good results from a program called
latex2html, and most problems were attributable to identifiable
causes, none of which were usually a major hindrance. (Back then we
had to make do with the deplorable HMTL version called HTML/3.2, but,
aside from that, the principles seemed right).

> Shall the idea of editing raw text become daunting, I suggest LyX
> < lyx.org > [LyX: Front-end to LaTeX]. 5 minutes with LyX would help
> anyone realise the difference and convey the idea, e.g. varying
> outputs, styles, imposition of structure, etc.
>
> Only a few days ago, somebody in the LyX mailing lists mentioned his
> upcoming presentation on "Word: What you See Is What a Mess".

googled!

It's really the principles which count here: but in practical terms,
I'm sure you're right in aiming at a format which promotes >doing the
right thing< by default - as opposed to one which has prominent
direct-formatting buttons on its user interface, and logical markup as
an apparently advanced topic which, I'm afraid, too many of authors
seem to disdain learning.

all the best

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