On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Michal Hoftich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > yes I am relying on .4ht files provided by tex4ht, tex4ht.sty is > loaded by lua4ht.sty in the case it wasn't loaded by calling script > (like `make4ht -lun -m draft filename`). So this means that you still > need to provide .4ht files in order to insert html tags. >
Hi Michal, thanks for your reply. This is actually very good news for me. I am working with the LyX project within the context of GSOC 2014 to provide a (LyX)/LaTeX export to (and possibly round-trip from) Word/ODT XML formats. As many before me have realized, the only practical solution is to go through tex4ht to have TeX iteself do the processing and then process the results. However, we have found several problems in tex4ht's XML output that need to be fixed by operating on the 4ht styles. So our first order of business is to get those right. Eventually, though, we would like to move beyond the current state of tex4ht and move to Luatex, for the reasons you detail in your posting, the fontspec issue, and so. It is very good news to hear that our current work at the .4ht style level will not be lost in the mi-term scenario. > But because lua4ht has full access to nodes created by luatex, some > interesting things are possible. I am exploring possibility of using > `mlist_to_hlist` callback to convert math nodes to mathml, because > mathml implementation in tex4ht depends on some tricks with dvi file > and I don't know whether these tricks are possible to emulate in node > callbacks. Other things which may be possible and which are not > supported with tex4ht is support for vertical skips and rules. This is something we are looking forward to. Hopefully by the end of the summer we can start contributing to this project. Best, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
