The latex2html converter
ITC announces the installation of the latex to html converter, latex2html (version 98.1), on our AIX platforms.
Latex2html converts latex documents into html format. Convert the latex document
"whatever.tex" into html format with the command:
latex2html whatever
The starting page for
the "whatever" document is located in the subdirectory "whatever" (this directory is created by the latex2html utility) and
has the name "whatever.html". Remember that all web documents must reside
in a directory that is "served" by the web server (for most users this area is
their public_html subdirectory).
Specifically, the latex2html converter:
- breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by
the user,
- provides optional iconic navigation panels on every page which
contain links to other parts of the document,
- handles inlined equations, right-justified
numbered equations, tables, or figures and any arbitrary environment,
- can produce output suitable for browsers that support inlined images
or character based browsers (as specified by the user),
- handles definitions of new commands, environments, and theorems
even when these are defined in external style files,
- handles footnotes, tables of contents, lists of figures and tables,
bibliographies, and can generate an index,
- converts cross-references into hyperlinks and extends the
LaTeX cross-referencing mechanism to work not just
within a document but between documents which may reside in
remote locations,
- translates accent and special character
commands to the equivalent ISO-LATIN-1
character set where possible,
- recognizes hypertext links (to multimedia resources or arbitrary
internet services such as sound/video/ftp/http/news) and links which
invoke arbitrary program scripts, all expressed as
LaTeX commands,
- recognizes conditional text which is intended only for the hypertext
version, or only for the paper (DVI) version,
- can include raw HTML in a LaTeX document (e.g. in order to specify
interactive forms),
- can deal sensibly at least with the Common LaTeX
commands,
- will try and translate any document with embedded
LaTeX commands irrespective of whether it is
complete or syntactically legal.
For more info on latex2html type:
man latex2html
or peruse the
latex2html documentation.
Mail comments or questions on latex2html to
res-consult@virginia.edu
