Installation on Windows

For Windows 95 , 98 , and NT you will either need a newer L^ATEX2HTML Release 99.1 or higher, or if you like to try an older release get the Windows 97.1 port by Fabrice Popineau from ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32 or the 98.2 DOS version l2h98_2dos.tar.gz by Daniel Taupin from http://www.latex2html.org/. Meanwhile, all the operating system dependent issues are integrated into the main release, thanks to the cool work of Marek Rouchal.

To install the tools required to run the translator, perform the steps below. Thanks to Jens Berger (jberger@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) for providing this list!

• install WinZip from http://www.winzip.com/getsite.cgi?winzip70.exe;
• install TEX/L^ATEX2_e and dvips;
  E.g. the MikTeX 1.20 distribution from http://www.miktex.de.
• install Perl;
  E.g. ActivePerl 509 or higher from http://www.activestate.com. Windows 95 users will also need DCOM, it is listed on that download page, too.
• install GhostScript;
  E.g. Aladdin GhostScript 5.50 from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin.
• install the NetPBM tools library from ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/.
• unpack L^ATEX2HTML, e.g. under C:\TEXMF\LATEX2HTML;
• check that the path to GSWIN32C.EXE is added to the PATH variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT;
• with L^ATEX2HTML 99.1 or higher, edit l2hconf.pin, then run CONFIG.BAT to install the translator;
  with older releases, edit LATEX2HTML.CONFIG and run

    cd c:\texmf\latex2html
    perl install-test
  

  from within a DOS box.
• you might want to write a small .BAT file in your L^ATEX2HTML directory:

    perl c:\texmf\latex2html\latex2html %1 %2 %3 >> l2h.log
    

  %1 is the name of the .TEX file, %2 and %3 are optional arguments to the translator such as -"-split 3" .
  Note that if you want more than two arguments you will need to supply more parameters to the .BAT file.
• run it with a test document test.tex:

     l2h test
  

  Maybe you will need to run L^ATEX before this, too!