[Axiom-developer] RE: tex4ht and jsmath

[Eitan Gurari]

 > > http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex/
 > > 
 > > it issues warnings about possible typographical errors.
 > >
 > 
 > Excellent! I think I will add this as an online tool in
 > MathAction.
 >  
 > > On the other hand, we could simply say: a proper pamphlet 
 > > file is a file that is correctly processed by latex and
 > > tex4ht. :-)
 > > 
 > 
 > No!! That would be a mistake similar to defining HTML as the
 > language accepted by the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
 > Since we can do much better than that, we should.

I think validating the output visually (latex) and against dtds
(tex4ht) is very important.  Chktex seems to be  a useful tool but
far from being sufficient for doing the whole job.

-eitan