i tried PDF first, but it broke because my TeX software used ligatures for
"fi" and "fl" and the standard fonts did not include glyphs for those
ligatures. result was that i published something that looked good on one of
my systems but looked like garbage on lots of others. rather than get into
"font hell", including trying to get no fewer than six bl**dy PCs i have in
my life coherent, i decided to look for another (turnkey) solution. DjVu is
the best i could come up with in the (very) limited time i have for this
project :-)
Brian "aspiring to adequacy" Beckman
>From: Jim Wilson <jim@jamesdwilson.com>
>To: "Brian Beckman" <brianbec6@hotmail.com>, peterl@cnw.com,
>shields@msrl.com, brianbec6@hotmail.com
>CC: nwautox@wwscc.org, autox@autox.team.net, brianbec@microsoft.com,
>brianbec@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Physics of Racing Part 15, etc.
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:17:01 -0400
>
>Why not use PDF format - there are viewers available for every platform
>that I know of and the new version supports linking within documents
>similar to HTML - it is also going to give you a much better document for
>printing than HTML, it can be converted from your original Word.doc, and I
>believe that Adobe has an online conversion service now so that you dont
>even have to buy the software to make the document. Much more accessible
>than the DjVu format - which is something that I have never even heard of
>before.
>
>
>
>At 01:00 AM 7/12/00 , Brian Beckman wrote:
> >i can't find a good way to do math in HTML. there's been a lot of noise
> >about something called "MathML", but last time i tried it, it was
>inadequate
> >in a bunch of ways. the number of people who want to do typeset
>mathematics
> >in documents is so small that the support software, if you can find it at
> >all, is crufty, buggy, nasty, outdated, and .... well, you get the
>point.
> >
> >
> >>From: Peter Loron <peterl@cnw.com>
> >>To: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>, Brian Beckman
> >><brianbec6@hotmail.com>
> >>CC: <nwautox@wwscc.org>, <autox@autox.team.net>,
><brianbec@microsoft.com>,
> >> <brianbec@hotmail.com>
> >>Subject: Re: Physics of Racing Part 15, etc.
> >>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:02:24 -0700
> >>
> >>It would seem that something like HTML would be good for wide
>availability
> >>across virtually all platforms. Even cell phones for quick lookups at
>the
> >>race!
> >>
> >>-Pete
> >>
> >>on 7/11/00 6:52 PM, Michael Shields at shields@msrl.com wrote:
> >>
> >> > In article <20000711092133.54963.qmail@hotmail.com>,
> >> > "Brian Beckman" <brianbec6@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> my current plan is to write future articles in MS Word rather than
>in
> >>TeX,
> >> >> but to distribute them in DjVu format, which is
>platform-independent.
> >> >
> >> > How so? I see only the "Win 95/98/NT 4.0" viewer at
>www.lizardtech.com.
> >> > It's not clear if it runs even on Windows 2000.
> >>
> >
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