On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Karl Berry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org">karl@freefriends.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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tex4ht maintenance is already nearly impossible (as you've seen since<br>
we've failed to make a release since Eitan's death), we aren't going to<br>
duplicate even more information.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am a bit confused as to what the "masterplan" for future html (and with that mobipocket/epub) export is for luatex. Borders has just closed and most of the remaining physical book stores seem to be heading in the same direction. I cannot imagine that there will be much of anyone left interested in only PDF-output, without the option of turning it into one of the formats for ebooks. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As I understand it, with lua-code it's either already or will shortly be possible to "catch" most of the output that it produces and divert it to some other output format. I haven't quite understood why, but for now ConTeXt apparently first also produces a DVI-file which it then analyses and produces the html of, much like this project, but it seems as if the Lua-code should be able to catch it much earlier than that... in which case it should also work with LaTeX.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In short: If the capability to produce html-files is rolled into the laluatex-binary (+ macropackages), then maybe it's OK for TeX4ht to just be on maintenance status and slowly die. But if this is not the case, then it seems that either LaTeX will be quit irrelevant very shortly or that TeX4ht would need to be updated to work with laluatex.</div>
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