Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

But these features are non-standard and will not work the same on
different viewers, hence the point, HTML NEVER prints the same from two
different viewers. Generally the point of systems like TeX is you can
garentee that a document will always look the same, regardless of if it
was typeset now or 10 years in the future.

>>> HTML is useless for document typesetting for a number of reasons:
>>> ...
>>> -- Browsers are incapable of hyphenating words, justified text has
>>> massive
>>> gaps in it.
>>
>> The html-to-pdf converter Prince (princexml.com) supports hyphenation,
>> using Tex patterns.
>>
>>> -- Browsers are incapable of using ligatures and outher features
>>> provided
>>> by preferential fonts.
>>
>> Prince supports all opentype features. For instance, to get oldstyle
>> digits:
>> p { font-variant: prince-opentype(onum) }
>>
>> If you do not like Prince, you can also print your documents from
>> Firefox to a pdf file. You can even automate this:
>> http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
>>
>> ++
>> Thomas
>>
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Received on Sat Sep 05 2009 - 08:29:39 UTC