I use LaTeX for everything - most particularly for papers and lecture slides. I 
haven’t used it in a while, but HeVeA (http://hevea.inria.fr/) is the best way 
to convert LaTeX to HTML.  When I last used it, it was quite effective. And it 
is quite focussed on including code in documents.

../Dave
On Oct 16, 2018, 9:16 AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]>, wrote:
> I've finally released a document I've been working on for a while:
>
> "Practical Use of GRUB's DSL: With the examples inexplicably left out of the 
> GRUB documentation" ( https://www.gilesorr.com/grubdsl/ )
>
> Daniel did the editing, and set me on this path in the first place with his 
> own interest in GRUB.  The GRUB DSL is somewhat similar to an older version 
> of a Linux shell, but documentation of its functionality online is poor to 
> non-existent.  Don't get me wrong: GRUB has a lot of documentation of 
> individual commands, but how you can assemble them into useful scripts is 
> barely documented at all.  (Yup, its an uncommon application realm.)  My 
> greatest frustration with GRUB's DSL is the lack of redirection and pipes (I 
> understand why they're not there - but it would be nice to have them).
>
> I hope this is helpful to someone!
>
>      -----
>
> As a technical side note, I learned the basics of LaTeX in an attempt to 
> create this document in that language (I'd been wanting to learn it for 
> years).  LaTeX is supposed to be able to generate not only PostScript and 
> PDF, but also HTML.  But it turns out the HTML generator isn't nearly as well 
> maintained as the PDF generator, and in the end I could find no way to 
> implement my code examples in such a way that the HTML generator wouldn't 
> fail on them.  I also found the language unnecessarily complex for what I was 
> trying to achieve and ultimately switched to raw HTML (which you see above).  
> LaTeX may have been a poor choice.  :-)
>
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