The L^ATEX2HTML Translator

Nikos Drakos

Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.

September 3, 2006

Documentation revised and updated for V97.1 and HTML 3.2;
and further revisions for V98.1 and later, and for HTML 4.0 by:

Ross Moore
Mathematics Department
Macquarie University, Sydney.

This document accompanies L^ATEX2HTML, version 99.1(beta).

This manual differs from earlier versions by updates to the section ``Installation and Further Support'', a few small changes in other sections, and a shortening of ``Known Problems'' by removing references to old problems that no longer occur. Not all of the newer features of L^ATEX2HTML V99.1 are described yet. A fully updated manual is underway and will be released when completed.

History: The manuscript was updated for version 96.1 by Herb Swan and converted for L^ATEX2_e by Michel Goossens.

Updates and extensive revisions to the manuscript for version V96.1 rev-f, were made by Ross Moore, also incorporating suggestions from Michel Goossens.

Another major revision was required to adequately describe the new features made possible with HTML 3.2, and developments in image-generation and macro-handling. This work was done by Ross Moore, as were most of the revisions for V98.1, V98.2 and V99.1. Portability for non-Unix systems has been achieved due to work done mainly by Marek Rouchal, Uli Wortmann, Fabrice Popineau and Daniel Taupin.

Appropriate change-bar icons indicate where newly added features are described.

A PostScript version is available.

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Contributions from others -- recent developments, 1997

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Proposals for future development

Licensing

Warning: The contents of this document are likely to change.
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Abstract:

L^ATEX2HTML is a conversion tool that allows documents written in L^ATEX to become part of the World-Wide Web. In addition, it offers an easy migration path towards authoring complex hyper-media documents using familiar word-processing concepts, including the power of a L^ATEX-like macro language capable of producing correctly structured HTML tags.

L^ATEX2HTML replicates the basic structure of a L^ATEX document as a set of interconnected HTML files which can be explored using automatically generated navigation panels. The cross-references, citations, footnotes, the table-of-contents and the lists of figures and tables, are also translated into hypertext links. Formatting information which has equivalent ``tags'' in HTML (lists, quotes, paragraph-breaks, type-styles, etc.) is also converted appropriately. The remaining heavily formatted items such as mathematical equations, pictures etc. are converted to images which are placed automatically at the correct position in the final HTML document.

L^ATEX2HTML extends L^ATEX by supporting arbitrary hypertext links and symbolic cross-references between evolving remote documents. It also allows the specification of conditional text and the inclusion of raw HTML commands. These hyper-media extensions to L^ATEX are available as new commands and environments from within a L^ATEX document.

This document presents the main features of L^ATEX2HTML and describes how to obtain and install it, and how to use it effectively.