Tony Sidaway wrote:
Alphax said:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
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Finally, the PDF solution would be elegant, and could be used for the print version. One problem is that apparently we can't host that version on meta (as it's a proprietary format) and also, we would have to wait until the various versions are fully translated before we did this. But more fundamentally, we'd need someone to do it.
PDF is proprietary? But Free PDF readers and writers exist.
PDF is an open format. Anybody can implement a writer or reader because the document standard is published. It is only proprietary in the sense that the Java language is proprietary. I believe there are some html-pdf document translators available. It isn't difficult.
So Adobe "owns" PDF in the same sense that Sun "owns" Java.
I've been meaning to get into the TeX thing for a while now... can DVIs be HTMLified? Can TeX have links in it?