Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX

Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by CJefferson on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:02PM (#20192124)

It would be an awful idea.

Latex can't produce HTML, it can't produce EPUBs or any other reflowable document type. It can't produce any document which is accessible to blind people (other than giving them the raw LaTeX file).

Note: You will find various libraries that claim to produce HTML output. I can tell you from experience none of them work, given a random LaTeX paper you download from, say, Arxiv.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by dredmorbius on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:27PM (#20192277)

Pandoc does all that, from LaTeX source (among others).

https://pandoc.org

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by piadodjanho on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:13PM (#20192781)

Pandoc creates PDF using LaTeX. You still constrained to LaTeX features, and therefore the lack of trivial accessibility.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by corollari on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:01PM (#20192455)

Pandoc's documentation itself says that the conversion is lossy.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by pseingatl on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:19PM (#20193653)

Pandoc conversion is another trip down the rabbit hole (latex to markdown:

Error at "input" (line 265, column 1): unexpected '\n'

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by dredmorbius on Monday June 17, 2019 @02:40AM (#20200458)

The assertion was that LaTeX cannot generate specific formats. Using Pandoc (NB: Pandoc Is Not Markdown, though it's often used with it), s well as earlier tools, that is in fact quite possible.

Using templates, with quite a level of flexibility.

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