I am definitely sympathetic about complaints about the ACM 2 column format.
But yes, if you come up with a tool that can produce better webpages from the given LaTeX source for a paper or such, I don't think you'd find yourself for lack of customers. It's just that right now, most of the stuff that does that results in stuff that's, sadly, pretty crappy.
And since LaTeX is a major academic publishing format precisely because of its typesetting, it's going to be difficult to try and shoehorn people away from that as a primary medium for paper writing. As I've written before, (La)TeX is the worst system for writing papers except all those others that have been tried. As a programming language, it's definitely subpar, but that's what you get when you try to avoid turing completeness by restricting your language and end up getting it anyway.
(And really, the only alternative to LaTeX found out in the wild right now is... Word. And... yeah. Yeah. Ugh.)
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But yes, if you come up with a tool that can produce better webpages from the given LaTeX source for a paper or such, I don't think you'd find yourself for lack of customers. It's just that right now, most of the stuff that does that results in stuff that's, sadly, pretty crappy.
And since LaTeX is a major academic publishing format precisely because of its typesetting, it's going to be difficult to try and shoehorn people away from that as a primary medium for paper writing. As I've written before, (La)TeX is the worst system for writing papers except all those others that have been tried. As a programming language, it's definitely subpar, but that's what you get when you try to avoid turing completeness by restricting your language and end up getting it anyway.
(And really, the only alternative to LaTeX found out in the wild right now is... Word. And... yeah. Yeah. Ugh.)