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I remember stumbling upon your work long ago when I was working on a project to have "e-zines" that consumed a series of `article` class files and rendered them out into PDF and HTML as a series package.

I had come across latex2html, Dan Gildea's project, and found myself unpleasantly dissatisfied with how it worked. As I understand it, it's more a "half implementation of lots of packages" rather than what ar5iv seems to be, which is "enough of the core LaTeX engine producing HTML instead of DVI"? I'd love to know more about the nitty gritty of how the engine does its thing.

I'm curious: How has modern web tech (e.g. WebAssembly, Canvas, etc) helped or gotten in the way of getting good LaTeX rendering in the browser?

parent indrora 2 years ago

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