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From: robert@audioheads.com (robert bristow-johnson)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 00:03:32 GMT
Message-ID: <1744@audioheads.com>
 
In article <324881ed.429105360@news.tiac.net>, E. Douglas Jensen (jensen@realtime-os.com) writes:
>On Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:25:50 GMT, eddemain@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Erik
>Demaine) wrote:
>
>>robert bristow-johnson (robert@audioheads.com) wrote: [trimmed]
>>: aren't there software tools that can convert PostScript into HTML?
>>: if not, someone could make some dough creating such a tool.
>>
>>Actually, that's pretty much impossible.  If it is possible (I'm not familiar
>>with the latest HTML), then it would have to look really ugly.
>
>Evidently it's not impossible, since Square One sells both a product
>to convert PS to MIF (from which you can get to just about anything),
>and a service using that product.
>

i went to Prof. Sokal's NYU web page (looking into his Social
Text hoax, sorry i don't recall the URL ... try
http://www.nyu.edu/ and navigate to the physics dept.) and the
articles placed on the web page were converted from LaTEX into
HTML with some sorta software tool or 'nother.

i thought there was some possibly controversial stuff on my
post but i didn't think the PostScript to HTML conversion
question would be it.

whatever.  :-|

r b-j


