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- Thomas A. Fine writes:
- >
- > I really think we're going the wrong way here. HTML was always meant
- > to be a small, even minimal document type. The promised strong point
- > of the web would be multiple document types, all tied together within
- > a structure of HTML documents.
- >
- There is certainly a danger of a very good idea becoming bloated with
- too many things. On the other hand, as one example ...
-
- > HTML only provides the framework by which lots of other document types
- > are accessed. You want to do lot's of neat TeX things? Use TeX.
-
- The kind of documents I am most interested in are about 50\% math
- and 50\% text with {\em lots} of cross-references. It is important
- that the math appear in-line with the document. A typical unit (node)
- is 1/2 page. I worry about performance if, for example, the math
- portion is farmed out to TeX/xdvi for rendering, and I wonder whether
- an acceptable cacheing scheme can be found (perhaps it can).
-
- I was attracted to HTML for this purpose because of the nice tools
- that are now available, in contrast to other mechanisms.
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