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by Retr0id 878 days ago
> don't just produce PDFs that nobody can read on small screens

I was thinking about this recently. If you get pedantic enough* about it, the typesetting quality you can get from a LaTeX+PDF is strictly better than what can be achieved using (sane) HTML.

I wanted to blog in LaTeX, and to solve the screen-size issue I thought I'd pre-bake to a wide range of page geometries, and then serve up an appropriate one to the client using pdf.js.

Fortunately for everyone, I decided against it in the end and continued blogging in markdown+html (with mathml support)

*well beyond what most readers would possibly care about