Thread: pdfLaTeX to get tag support?
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:47 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Hmm if they're looking at TeX as a rendering system (presumably rendering to PDF/DVI) then there will need to be an HTML->TeX conversion layer, which wont be lossless and then a TeX to PDF conversion layer, which will be slow. And all this for only better paragraph breaking?
They might implement only the TeX algorithm for paragraph breaking and "full" TeX for certain elements, like equations (as does Auctex with preview-latex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auctex.png)
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