Posted by shahryareiv on Feb 28, 2017; 4:16pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Flexibility-of-PDF-Output-and-Hyphenation-tp5303p5316.html

By the way, regarding Latex vs Asciidoc. I think  it is not exactly a right comparison. Asciidoc tries to be purely semantic (there are very few deviations such as specifying "width" for images) but Latex mixes semantics with zillions of typesetting and formative definitions. I tried many of methods for converting Latex to HTML and most of them fail some where (including the tex4ht model that works at dvi level) because of this simple fact that it is not possible to automatically understand what is the semantic specification any part of text (except for the common basic macros and evironments)

Also, in latex it is quite possible that you use a package specific environment or macro and just few years later your code does not compile because the package is not maintained any more. In Asciidoc, I know that even if Asciidoctor dies, still my document is human readable without the needed of looking at a Asciidoc manual. Also my document has replicated itself to Docbook, HTML and PDF, while in Latex it has replicated only to PDF.