X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1346" "Tue" "15" "December" "1998" "11:59:57" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "30" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26771; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:33:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.8780F97F@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:25:56 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413329 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:25:53 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24545 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:25:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.21] (sl01.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.21]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16451 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:25:43 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812142124.PAA16580@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:59:57 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3129 At 15:24 -0600 1998/12/14, Randolph J. Herber wrote: >|>Address that problem by using dvips and then ps2pdf, or dvipdf, if it >exists. > >|This does not work with embedded links. > > Why would not it work? I used `dvipdf' as a generic name for a > hypothetical dvto-to-pdf converter is the same sense that a dvips > program exists for conversion of dvi to Adobe PostScript files. > > After doing that conversion, the result PDF files could be used > in the HTML. The multiple stages could be managed in a CGI script. Depends: In DVI, such links are shipped out using \special, when converted to PS, it must be put into a similar box, which later is converted correctly to PDF. If people sit down and work it out correctly, it may work, but it is a fragile procedure, as it hangs on a chain of extensions that must work together. My hunch is that you get conversions that will work by the platform, say UNIX, that way. On the other hand, if the format from the beginning understands links (like PDF), there is no doubt that it will work if the format converted to also understands links. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: