Rendering this on the web

[RodionGork]

Hi Friends!

I was asked if I can help in setting up the app which renders such pages to web automatically. I left a comment here topcoderinc/cab#78 (comment) as I'm not sure what is a proper place.

[agorbunovs]

Hi @RodionGork ,
Thanks for sharing!

Currently we are still in doubt if we are going to use the github readme (aka MD) format with TeX insertions for formulas as a base.

I personally see it easier to just use plain TeX format as a base, because it can be converted both to HTML via htlatex and/or to PDF via pdflatex. The former is good for web-book and the later for printed version.

On the other hand, the same can be done with MD, just first convert it to TeX, then to anything. The question is then do we need the MD format in this chain?

[RodionGork]

@agorbunovs I understand your doubts - I'm quite not sure markdown is the best. Though it seems easier to lure people into crowd-sourcing if the instrument is simple. (Also I do not know is a printed version really necessary, as it not as easy to access - and hence it has far less target auditory.)

I think you can leave discussions for now. Technically it should be possible to add another converter later... so if the source of a given page is stored in TeX it is converted from TeX, and if in MD, then from Markdown. I'm not sure I can easily find php library for rendering TeX at once - but I suspect this can be solved later.