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From: Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: COMSAT Labs
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:20:55 -0400
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>>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Moreira <AMoreira@nine.com> writes:

    Alberto> There are Latex to HTML converters, I believe there's one at CTAN. A lot 
    Alberto> of people typically write their papers in Latex, and run the output 
    Alberto> through DVIPS to get postscript. Also, many tools used to do pictures 
    Alberto> will generate GIF or JPEG just as readily as they will generate  
    Alberto> postscript. Some people are kind enough to put online both Tex and
    Alberto> Postscript versions of their papers, although pictures are usually
    Alberto> available in postscript. Some people put html versions online too, and 
    Alberto> that's nice because I can read the paper without necessarily downloading 
    Alberto> it. But I'm also seeing more and more files in Adobe Acrobat format, 
    Alberto> specially when they're graphics intensive.

latex2html is no panacea.  If you have lot's of math the results are
not at all satisfactory.  (It makes a gif for every signal symbol you
encounter, which can result in hundreds of gif files).

