Converting TeX to HTML: was Looking for a serious TeX hacker

[William F Hammond]

Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> writes:

> Am Sat, 17 Jun 2023 17:45:04 -0700 schrieb William F Hammond via
> texhax:
>
>> Another question is whether anyone in the LaTeX Project has
>> thought about writing LaTeX for well-tagged PDF beginning
>> with LaTeXML's XML.
>
> Why should the LaTeX team work on XML to pdf conversion?

I intended my question to inquire about a pipeline approach, something
like this diagram:


 |                                LaTeXML
 |            LaTeX source        ------>
 |
 |                                sgmlspl or
 |                                XSLT or ...
 |            LaTeXML's XML       ---------->
 |
 |                                tag capable
 |            LaTeX-source with    pdflatex
 |            hooks for tagging   ----------->
 |
 |            tagged PDF


In the pipeline above the role of LaTeXML's XML could be played
by any sufficiently structured XML document type modeling LaTeX.
The problem, whether the target is HTML+MathML or tagged PDF,
always is getting the user to write something with sufficent
structure.  LaTeXML does a rather impressive job of creating
formal structure where the user has been informal.

I hope this clarifies what I meant.

                           -- Bill


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