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Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by pclmulqdq on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:27PM (#41123640)
Personally, I would rather just have TeX itself target the web rather than wedging another layer into the typesetting stack. As far as I know, other than the sheer size of the language, there is nothing fundamental stopping someone (I guess me, eventually) from writing "htmlatex."

Modern web pages are already designed with "camera ready" in mind, essentially with browser width being the only thing that changes layout.

Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by nrr on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:47PM (#41123815)
My point is more that TeX is a typesetter just as a Web browser is. They're incompatible typesetting systems with wildly different command languages.
Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by justincormack on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @09:02PM (#41125227)
I think the poster above wants to run TeX in js to format the text. I have seen a bunch of hyphenation and suchlike stretching back years not sure about running a full engine.