[Bug-gnupedia] Why not ask the 20 years experience of TeX in the digital and publishing?

[Cuauhtemoc Pacheco Diaz]

> "Thomas E. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> > I keep piping up about this because, if we are really serious, then
> > we NEED to be able to support serious math content in the best
> > possible way.  If each article must have only a single, unified
> > <content> section that only supports a subset of HTML, then are we
> > ruling out the possibility that an article might have several HTML
> > nodes, as in the default output of latex2html?

This is a very important issue. We need to be able to use
not only the best math content system, we may use the
ideas behind TeX, the best digital typography system.
Complex technical papers, and texts with special characters
(like chess notation, music documents,  egypt glyphs and
the easy adaptation to ancient and modern alphabets)
can be used to print and publish the best quality documents used
for the GNUpedia.

A lot of tools can help to translate TeX or LaTeX code to other 
less rich formats like HTML and others.

TeX may be not easy to the most people. But I think that the effort
to learn and use TeX will be very important in the electronic publishing
age.

¡Saludos desde México!
Cuauhtémoc Pacheco Díaz
Linux OpenSource