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Comment Re:M4 + anything (Score 1) 139

tex4ht seems to do a pretty good job - it can handle complicated macros, because it runs LaTeX itself to produce a DVI file, and converts that to HTML. (I think it fiddles around with the styles to put \special commands in the DVI file, so it can recover the structure of the document.)

A good-looking Postscript file isn't the same as a good-looking HTML file, though, so in my experience the output isn't quite so pretty as a hand-written HTML file (it indents paragraphs, for example, as that's what the style says to do, even though most HTML files don't do that). I suppose changing the style a bit could fix that, but I haven't got round to trying...

MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy 448

goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"

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