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From: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content
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At 19:20 26.05.2006, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>On Friday 26 May 2006 11:35, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
>
> > I am trying to transcribe The Noble Qur'an, by some said to be the
> > most elegant book ever written, into LaTeX format. That way I can format it
> > the way I wish, and study it at my own premises.
>
>I prefer "Godel, Escher & Bach", but that's just me.  Anyway, didn't
>html2latex (/usr/ports/print/html2latex/pkg-descr) work?
>--
>Kirk Strauser
>

Interesting book, I will check it out :)

html2latex is nice but I'm not sure if that's what I want.
There are too many elements in the HTML files that I do not wish
to include and removing them all would be equally painful.

Thanks!