On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:03:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:30:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:20 -0700, Liontaur <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Related but slightly OT, I've never had much luck getting it the other
> > > > way
> > > > around, HTML to PDF. It's often off a bit. I can't remember off the top
> > > > of
> > > > my head what ports i've tried but yea. Either the images are wonky or my
> > > > forms go wonky.
> > >
> > > This is simply because HTML is not typesetting-capable. Depending
> > > on the source of the PDF file, it may help to convert from THAT
> > > format instead from PDF. E. g. if you have a .tex (LaTeX) file
> > > that has been the source of the PDF file, you can use a converter
> > > from LaTeX to HTML, often with acceptable results.
> > >
> > > The HTML concept, especially when incorporating CSS for formatting,
> > > _can_ be used to gain a bit typographic quality, e. g. by defining
> > > parameters for "screen" and for "printed" media. Still it suffers
> > > from things like maintaining good grey values, hypenation and
> > > ligatures.
>
> You can add proper justification to the list that HTML doesn't do well!
>
> > Hmm. The ligatures that looked so great in my .tex/PDF output
> > got lost.
>
> Very few programs do ligatures well. If you're using unicode text, you can use
> them directly in your text, like this: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
>
> How well these look depends on the fonts used. I've got a whole list of handy
> unicode characters on my webpage. See the entry marked 2010-10-16.
>
> > Only that somehow, HTML4 can read the hex code that
> > abiword's html created. :-) Also, the `` and '' look great in
> > Times. I fixed the page numbers--all had to go away; I edited
> > the chapter headings--all by hand. What's left are the hundreds
> > of broken paragraphs.
>
> You might fare better by taking the TeX souce, run it though detex(1) and use
> markdown [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/] do create HTML.
>
> > What utility take a LaTeX file -> HTML? ((Be nice to have both
> > *strictly professional typeset* and then HTML. I can add
> > indents for AE style paragraphing, and much more. Fix the
> > hyphenation, etc.
>
> Next to the obvious textproc/latex2html? :-)
>
Yeah, found it with locate! And found some very interesting
results. I haven't check my .tex source, but the latex2html
produces some **very** interesting results.
In my lates j.html file there are hundreds of "broken
paragraphs" such as:
She stopped and
turned around.
"What?" he said.
"I just thought I'= taking the
wrong course."
And so on. There is a "<br>" embedded in hundreds of
paragraphs. Now I have the output from latex2html to check
against, things can be that much easier. Do you or does any
regex wiz have a way of catching embedded <br>'s within
sentences?
It might save me. It would certainly make things _easier_!
I'll play around with /[a-zA-z]<br><[A-Za-z]. Hope the
> and < aren't a problem in regexland.... :-)
thanks much,
gary
> Roland
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