On Sun, 25 May 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 2008/5/25 Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> It has been an issue for 10 years now.
> >
> > Exactly. There are 4 converters:
> >
> > Latex2html - a huge perl script which needs more time and memory than God
> >     needed to create the earth, to convert the docs.  We dumped it because
> >     it simply takes too long. It's good for small documents (articles), but
> >     not for books.
> >
> > tex4ht - Was very good, but has some issues. Problem is that it's no longer
> >         maintained, and is no longer included in e.g. SuSE.
> >
> > Hevea - also good, but is written in objective caml (and I thought Pascal 
> > was considered obscure)
> >        so it also doesn't install easily on a SuSE system.
> >
> > tex2rtf - Very good, fast. But only supports a subset of latex, not enough 
> > for the documentation.
> 
> 
> Is there a good latex to docbook converter?  DocBook to HTML seems
> pretty good (well, the examples I have seen) If so, maybe it can be a
> two step process. latex -> docbook -> html

The process usually is docbook -> latex, not the other way round...

Michael.
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