On 12 Oct 2005, at 04:40, tom sgouros wrote:
Otfried Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
Finally,
tex4ht uses the Tex engine itself - the cleanest to parse TeX input,
of course. However, it's way of extracting the XML appears quite
awkward to me.
tex4ht is a very strange beast, and I've never had much luck with it.
I recently took a fresh look at the various converters from LaTeX to
HTML, and found TeX4ht quite attractive. So far, I've only tried using
it for my home page <http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~cspdm/PDMosses.html>,
but I intend to try it on some larger documents too. It took me some
time to become sufficiently familiar with the many TeX4ht configuration
options (some of them are documented only in the .log file produced
when using the "info" option!) but after that, most of the effort was
working out how to generate navigation panels, and developing some CSS
code.
I think the main advantage of TeX4ht (over Hyperlatex and all other
converters from LaTeX to HTML) is that it's entirely based on (La)TeX
programs. When using it, each LaTeX markup command is redefined to have
various hooks, which are then configured to generate HTML (or other
code). The configuration can be done in a separate file (still using
LaTeX commands), or specified by command-line options. The generated
code is subsequently extracted from the DVI file, together with the
running text, to produce the web pages.
My impression is that TeX4ht produces XHTML which usually renders very
much like the original LaTeX - also regarding paragraphs in list items.
I'm not claiming that Hyperlatex should always produce exactly the same
XHTML as TeX4ht, but at least TeX4ht might be useful as a point of
reference. The TeX4ht home page is at
<http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html>. You may find
that a recent version of TeX4ht is already included in your (La)TeX
installation.
-- Peter Mosses
Prof Peter D Mosses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dept of Computer Science, Swansea University
Home: www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~cspdm/PDMosses.html
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