followup, as the thread came up anyway
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:15:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Maxim's suggestion on using html for the draft seems interesting.
> > It's a long time I am looking for a good pretext to learn writing
> > HTML (without that, I lack the motivation to persevere).
>
> There are a number of filters that conver plain text with "markup" to
> HTML or RTF. Check the latex->html route or the wiki/pod route.
I lately needed to write an FAQ html document as HTML. I figured that I
liked the structure that LaTeX gives me. I wrote a simple \quest macro
that formats the question (a subsection), labels it, and gives it an
optional "long version". So my document looks like:
\quest{label}{Why is there A}
{When I run B after C has been stopped, why do I get A?}
Naturally I defined logical markup for everything. e.g:
\newcommand{\pathname}[1]{\mbox{\texttt{#1}}}
With hyperref I can add external links. I rather not use
convertor-specific jargon if I can avoid it. hyperref is well-suported.
Docbook and XML formats always seem to nme as over-verbose.
As for the convertor, latex2html was not available as a debian package
on my system (non-fre?) so I tried some others.
The one I most liked was something called hevea, written on ocaml. It
can easily generate clean html output. Works well. The only way to
remove its footer, though, is using a (empty?) footer include file.
But I eventually had a little thing I could not tweak it to do (don't
remember exactly what), so I tried some others. The one I ended up using
in the end is tex4ht .
A bit uglier than hevea, and the html code is not as good, but happened
to be just what I needed.
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