On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Catalin David <catalindavid2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all! > > I am actually a student that used to work on this stuff. In our > research group, we were mainly interested in transforming the arXiv ( > www.arxiv.org) to XHTML + MathML via LaTeXML ( > http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/ )
What you are doing is a truly evil thing. A certainly interesting project, from the point of view of trying to understand how and why would any human being take up such an abominable task. I honestly and deeply hope you fail completely. uriel > so that it can be displayed on the web > (build system page: http://arxmliv.kwarc.info -- down now due to > maintenance). > > What you might be interested in is this paper that we wrote a while > back for a workshop (DML 09): > http://kwarc.info/kohlhase/submit/dml09.pdf that tackles exactly this > issue, transforming LaTeX to XHTML+MathML. > > Please let me know on what you think or if you have any more questions, > > Catalin > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Uriel <ur...@berlinblue.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:52PM +0200, Uriel wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm looking for a minimally sane way to generate presentation slides, >>>> ideally using something similar to markdown and capable of generating >>>> decent-looking html (and hopefully) pdf. >>>> >>>> I know about magicpoint, and I normally use the troff slides macros: >>>> http://repo.cat-v.org/troff-slider/ >>>> >>>> But the generated HTML is rather messy, and fixing htmlroff is too much >>>> work. >>> >>> Have you tried generating a PDF and using one of the PDF to HTML converters? >> >> Do you know of any PDF to HTML converter that is not crap? Because I >> have been looking for such a thing for years, and would love to have >> one, but I'm starting to suspect such a thing is impossible. >> >>> They tend to work fairly well with PDFs generated by programs like troff, >> >> Not in my experience, but again I'm really happy to hear suggestions >> for good PDF to HTML converters. >> >> uriel >> >>> though I don't expect it'd be nearly as clean as that generated by markdown. >>> I use TeX myself, which has some fairly good HTML generators these days. >>> >>> -- >>> Kris Maglione >>> >>> Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not >>> sure about the universe. >>> --Albert Einstein >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > ****************************** > Catalin David > B.Sc. Computer Science 2010 > Jacobs University Bremen > > Phone: +49-(0)1577-49-38-667 > > College Ring 4, #343 > Krupp College B-313 > Bremen, 28759 > Germany > ****************************** > >
