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Old 09-18-2010, 10:14 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Would be pretty useless for typesetting, though. At most, you could convert the LaTeX source into XHTML (and there are converters for this), but the former is rendered/typeset by TeX, while the latter is by whatever HTML rendering engine the ePUB reader uses, and there's nothing a converter can do about it.
Isn't one of the fundamental concepts of HTML that it supplies "semantic" information, but leaves it up to the display engine to decide how to display it? Eg, HMTL says "I want this text to be emphatic", but doesn't specify how that emphasizing should be carried out. That seems fundamentally at odds with the goal of typesetting, which is all about display, rather than meaning.
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