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 > From: Michael Barr <barr@barrs.org>
 > 
 > I would suggest doing it in tex and then converting it to pdf, which is
 > quickly coming to be a standard for the web.  There are at least two ways
 > of doing tex --> pdf that cost no money.  There is something called
 > pdflatex.

Still beta I believe, but works well.

 > A second, not entirely
 > satisfactory is to use the ability of gsview to output pdf files.  You
 > choose print to disk and then you get a pdf file that can be read with the
 > Adobe reader.  
 > 
Best results are obtained by using type 1 fonts and the most recent version
of ghostscript, currently 5.97, or maybe 6.

Another possibility, which I've found gives the best results,
is to use a free program called dvipdfm:

http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/

Bob T.