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If you’re interested in an actual TeX distribution for the web, I’m working on something like that: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo

It’s based on LaTeXML, which does the heavy lifting of converting LaTeX to HTML. I’m more interested in the CSS applied on top of that. I want to make web output of the same calibre as the PDF output. (Or, near to it at least. :)



> I want to make web output of the same calibre as the PDF output.

This to me is the unsolved problem. Interpreting a LaTeX file on the web is probably not a crazy problem -- heck, worst case scenario recompile the entire LaTeX compiler into WASM or something.

But, typesetting on the web is really hard and browser capabilities that I know of are just not up to snuff, to the point that conventional wisdom is you pretty much never justify text on the web, ever, because it won't ever look good. So generic solutions to that problem are something I'd be interested in.

The secondary problem past that is to make justified text look good while still being responsive :) But even just for fixed column widths it's something that I'd love to see.

Props, it looks like a very cool project.




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