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

[Kaveh Bazargan]

These are legal documents so the content is important. What if there were
an anomaly between them? which is the correct one? I have suggested that
there should always be a "format of record" that is definitive.
http://zeeba.tv/never-mind-the-version-of-record-which-is-your-format-of-record/

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 13:43, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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