[Twisted-Python] Re: Lore vs. latex2html: Fight to the Finish (Moshe Zadka)

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 13:30 America/New_York, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Cory Dodt <corydodt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> As far as EPS conversion, I've already done the legwork on this one if
>> you'd like to see my pilhtml2latex.  I haven't been brave enough to 
>> try
>> Lore yet, so it still depends on the old html2latex code.
>
> Well, I'm more wondering what interface it should present to the user 
> --
> once we decide on an interface, the implementation shouldn't be hard.
> I'm currently leaning towards <a href="file.eps" 
> class="eps">caption</a>.
> The rationale is that this seems to be the best bet in case your 
> browser
> happens to have a handler for the PS format, which is a gazillion times
> more likely than <img src="file.eps"/> working. Again, the overriding
> concern here is "what looks good in the source format".

Why not PDF instead of EPS?  They're practically the same internally, 
conversion from eps -> pdf is trivial, and PDF is a lot more likely to 
be viewable.

-bob