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Date:         Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:12:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
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> Sebastian Rahtz writes:
> :   . . .                                       your friend TeX will
> : still be there underneath, formatting away for you.
>
> I'm not clear about what this means.  Is it more than print only?
> Does it refer to Eitan Gurari's "tex4ht"?

no, tex4ht goes the other way, making a reasonable stab at producing
html (or xml or whatever) from tex input.

what i thought sebastian was suggesting was that the final typeset
quality can quite reasonably be the same as that of tex, since one can
use tex as a typesetting engine at the end of a *ml processing
pipeline.

robin