Not off-topic: Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's

[Mike Marchywka]

Are they archiving images or "live documents" that may be interactive?
Can you just archive computer code?
An image still requires a dictionary and interpretation in the conetmporary
language although "English" is probably more stable than a dvi viewer lol.


 Mike Marchywka 
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From: texhax <texhax-bounces+marchywka=hotmail.com at tug.org> on behalf of Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2024 8:35 AM
To: Jonathan Fine
Cc: TeXhax
Subject: Re: Not off-topic: Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's

Hi Jonathan,

> SUMMARY: The TeX community is lagging behind lawyers in creation of archive
> ready documents, as shown in a recent high-profile High Court judgement.

PDF is *archive ready*. In fact, it is better than HTML for archival
purposes, since HTML depends on the interpretation of the engine.
Furthermore, we are working on good solutions for HTML conversion
(LaTeXML), see recent improvements and provision of HTML formats at
arXiv.

> This shows that the legal profession is considerably ahead of the TeX
> community, in providing documents in multiple formats. Further the UK
> National Archives support the production as storage of such multiple format
> documents.

Archiving is not depending on having *multiple* formats.

> This is particularly important to us because Don Knuth intended (and
> succeeded) in making TeX archival. However, most open source TeX-based
> workflows do not support creation of high-quality HTML and XML output.

LaTeXML has a very high conversion success on the arXiv corpus of about
2.4M articles.

I am VERY sure that LaTeXML does have not the slightest problem
converting legal documents (because I know where the problems are).

So, what do you suggest?

Best regards

Norbert

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