hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

Greg Ward gerg.ward+hg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 16:32:12 CST 2009


On 11 February 2009, Doug Philips said:
> On or about Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 02:45PM, Bryan O'Sullivan indited:
> ...
> >In retrospect, LaTeX was a poor choice for the book: I wouldn't use it for anything I was
> >planning to publish in HTML again.
> 
> I realize I'm late coming to this party, but I can't help wondering if HTML output is all that important anymore?
> Given that PDF has become the defacto standard for interchanging documents and seems to be well supported in all the major browsers.
> Wouldn't it be simplest to just not produce HTML?

Errm?  Excuse me?  Are we using the same World-Wide Web?

PDF is nice, but it's *just* *not* *the* *same*.  If you want your
document to be a first-class citizen of the WWW, use HTML.  (Well, OK,
maaaaybe this newfangled XML thing with either CSS stylesheets or XSLT
transformation to XHTML will come to something... too early to tell...
;-)

       Greg

P.S. oh wait, was that a troll?  man, I've been out of the loop for
too long.  sorry if I fell for it.


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