Preservation of TeX/LaTeX Documents
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Authors
Barnes, Ian
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Australia: Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
Abstract
I will address the following questions in this report:
1. Is TeX/LaTeX an adequate long-term preservation format?
2. Is there a viable process for converting TeX/LaTeX into DocBook XML + MathML?
3. How good is the support for MathML (for rendering to the screen by web browsers, and for rendering to
PDF by XSL-FO processors)?
I will also cover some other related issues, including the possibility of outsourcing preservation of TeX/LaTeX
documents to existing archives like arXiv[13], and using the TeX typsetting engine to produce good quality
PDF renditions of XML documents, including those with mathematical content in the form of embedded
MathML. I will finish with some recommendations.
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Tex, Latex, Digital Preservation, Digital Sustainability, Digitisation, Digitization, Data Management, Data Preservation, Digital Curation, Data Storage, Digital Stewardship, Backup, arXiv, DocBook, MathML, TeX4ht
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Working/Technical Paper
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Date created
2006-07
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Open Access