You may want to have a look at the lwarp package as an alternative to tex4ht.
Denis > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ntg-context <ntg-context-boun...@ntg.nl> Im Auftrag von Hugh Fisher via > ntg-context > Gesendet: Freitag, 10. September 2021 13:14 > An: ntg-context@ntg.nl > Cc: Hugh Fisher <hugo.fis...@gmail.com> > Betreff: [NTG-context] LuaMetaTEX as LaTeX to XHTML/ePub transpiler? > > I have documents in LaTeX, and would like to generate XHTML (ePub) output > without going through an intermediate DVI or PDF step. > Markup to markup, translating or transpiling rather than typesetting. > > My use case is that I have two tabletop gaming books, 60 - 80 pages of text > and > diagrams, written for pdfLaTeX and now with XeLaTeX. I'm very happy with > LaTeX and the wonderful PDF output for print. > > But now I also want to create ePub/XHTML as well as print versions. > So far I've tried tex4ebook and tex4ht and neither works for me. > Firstly, some of the LaTeX commands are not recognised or causing errors. > > And secondly, when I managed to get a small test section to work, the > generated XHTML/HTML is very large, full of tiny <span>s. The problem seems > to be that tex4ht runs TeX which typesets everything into DVI with every > element carefully placed on a page, and then tex4ht tries to reverse that back > into HTML. All this extra HTML will slow down / interfere with the ebook > reader which is doing the final page layout at runtime on a particular device. > > How I would like it to work is directly from LaTeX to HTML without any low > level typesetting. If I have a LaTex source paragraph > > This is some text with \textbf{some parts} in bold. > > The <whatever>TEX will copy the source text to the destination. If there's a > TeX > command, here \textbf, it looks for a Lua function with that name and invokes > it with whatever argument text is present. > The Lua function emits <b>, then recursively processes the argument text, then > emits </b>. Similarly there would be an implied lookup of \beginParagraph and > \endParagraph which would emit <p> and </p>. > Plain text just gets copied through unchanged. > > > So (finally) my question: is LuaMetaTEX what I'm looking for? > > Yes is the answer I'm hoping for. And any guidance would be much > appreciated. > > No, but best starting point? I've never tried modifying TeX code itself, but > I am > an experienced and sometimes competent programmer. > who has written a compiler parser and a high level code generator. > > No and not a good idea to try? > > Any other responses? > > > -- > > cheers, > Hugh Fisher > ________________________________________________________________ > ___________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : > https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ________________________________________________________________ > ___________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________