[fpc-pascal] Web link to documentation

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Mar 20 11:37:14 CET 2009



On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > I don't agree that the fact that HTML docs is secondary makes it
> > > automatically a non-issue :-) A "lesser" issue of course, but OTOH we have
> > > been messing with it for over ten years (I started with Latex2html 96) now,
> > > and it is still borked.
> > > 
> > > I'm thinking of trying to create an html fixer app. I know, that wouldn't be
> > > the first too, but at least it would be better than this.
> > 
> > Feel free to do so... I will not stop anyone from doing so.
> > 
> > Although it might be better to try and fix tex4ht, more people will benefit
> > from that :-)
> 
> Yes, that is what you said with latex2html too. Hacking in that 1.5 MB perl
> script is the worst programming experience I ever had :-)

In the end, there will be nothing for it but to write our own latex2html.
If it can convert the docs, it'll convert most latex out there... =)

Michael.



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