Getting L^ATEX2HTML

One way L^ATEX2HTMLmay be obtained is through one of the three Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN) sites. They are located at

US

United States: http://ctan.tug.org/ctan/,

UK

United Kingdom: http://www.tex.ac.uk/

DE

Germany: ftp://ftp.dante.de/.

In the directory tex-archive/support/latex2html/ should be the latest version, as a compressed archive.

There are also many mirrors. To find the nearest to you, get a listing via the command:

finger ctan@www.tug.org

The site at http://www.latex2html.org/ is a convenient alternative for European users. This is connected to the developer's repository, so should always have the most recent release.

Alternatively, a compressed tar file of the source and related files may be obtained via anonymous ftp to http://www.latex2html.org/current/.

Two other ftp-sites are:

• http://ctan.tug.org/ctan/tex-archive/support/latex2html
• http://ftp.rzg.mpg.de/pub/software/latex2html/sources/

Other ftp-sites nearer to you can be found using Archie at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/archie.html or http://www.pvv.unit.no/archie/ (faster) or more recent Web-searching tools such as FTP search in Norway.

Warning: Some ftp-sites may not carry the latest version.

Updates and patches are posted on the L^ATEX2HTML server at http://www.latex2html.org/current/.

Finally there is the L^ATEX2HTML developers' CVS repository, at http://www.latex2html.org/user/.
The files to be found here are the most up-to-date with current developments, but they cannot be guaranteed to be fully reliable. New features may be still under development and not yet sufficiently tested for release. A daily updated compressed archive of the developers' work may be downloaded from http://www.latex2html.org/current/.

Warning: Use the files from this site at your own risk.

Having obtained a compressed tar version, save it into a file latex2html-98.1.tar.gz say, then extract its contents with

% gzip -d latex2html-98.1.tar.gz
% tar xvf latex2html-98.1.tar

You should then have the following:

• README file;
  ^98.1
  
• Changes index with latest changes;
• Changes.detailed (no longer supplied);
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• latex2html Perl script;
• texexpand Perl script⁸;
• latex2html.config configuration file;
• install-test Perl script, for installation and testing;
• dot.latex2html-init sample initialisation file;
• texinputs/ subdirectory, containing various L^ATEX style-files;
• versions/ subdirectory, containing code for specific HTML versions;
• makemap Perl script;
• example/ subdirectory, containing the segmentation example, described in detail in a later section;
• .dvipsrc file;
• pstogif Perl script (no longer supplied);
• pstoimg Perl script for image conversion (replaces pstogif);
• configure-pstoimg Perl script for installation;
• local.pm Perl input file;
• icons.gif/ subdirectory, containing icons in GIF format;
• icons.png/ subdirectory, containing icons in PNG format;
• makeseg Perl script and examples to handle segmented documents via a generated Makefile, see makeseg.tex;
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• docs/foilhtml/ contains L^ATEX package and Perl implementation by Boris Veytsman, to support FoilTeX to HTML translation;
• IndicTeX-HTML/ package that contains Perl and L^ATEX code for translating IndicTEX documents (see README file);
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• docs/ subdirectory, containing the files needed to create a version of this manual;
• styles/ subdirectory, containing Perl code for handling some style-files;
• tests/ contains some test documents for L^ATEX2HTML.

Footnotes

... script⁸

Initially written by Robert S. Thau, completely rewritten by Marek Rouchal and Jens Lippmann.