On 26 Aug 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
Steve Fosdick fozzy@pelvoux.demon.co.uk writes:
What do people currently recommend in order to publish the same document both in printable form, and as HTML?
Two options: LaTeX with dvipdfm and tex4ht's htlatex; XML with XSLT and FOP. Which is better? I still don't know.
The LaTeX tools are quite a bit easier to get started with and better tested, but they don't keep content and layout apart.
Which, IMHO, means they're not really going to help you any more than your existing word processor. You'll probably still need to mess with the HTML output to get it looking nice.
Besides, it took me a day and a half to get a letter which looked even half decent using LaTeX, and I missed off a lot of the complicated bits. It is old, at least, and hence stable.
I got started with XML/XSLT in maybe 3-4 hours... once I'd finished messing around trying to understand W3C stuff and found some examples. The steep bit is likely to be learning what all the different Formatting Objects (FOs) are.
MJR or anyone: is the Apache FOP any good? Can't be bothered to learn all about FOs if there isn't even a working processor yet...
Alexis -- ps. and the stupid way they write tex/latex REALLY gets on my nerves.