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3.1 LaTeX2HTML
LATEX2HTML is a collection of perl scripts that maps LATEX document
structures into a navigable HTML web and also converts content that cannot be
represented as HTML into browser-readable images within that web.
It was originated by
Nikos Drakos
at the University of Leeds, U.K. but has since been extended by an
ad hoc consortium of technical documentation authors and perl wizards.
It handles the document conversion as follows:
- a separately-installed
LATEX engine (such as that provided by MiKTeX) is used
to break the document into components as specified by the user's
LATEX sectioning commands, including footnotes, tables of contents,
indexing and bibliography;
- the parts of the document that LATEX2HTML recognizes are converted to
the corresponding HTML structures, and are written out, with appropriate
hypertext navigation aids, as .html files.
- all other parts, including mathematical symbols, equations, graphics and
images, are turned into .dvi files, .ps
files and finally into bitmapped .gif or .png images that are
cross-linked to the .html as appropriate. (dvips, Ghostscript,
and netpbm are invoked during this conversion and
therefore must also be installed.)
- tables and figures are converted to HTML Table structures and/or
images (depending on the HTML output level specified by the user).
- LATEX cross-references (labels) are converted into internal hyperlinks;
- external hyperlinks can be generated, so that the
.html files can be used as part of a larger document structure on the
WWW or Intranet;
- conditional text structures are provided in an html.sty style file,
so that the output can be optimized differently for the .dvi
(and hence PostScript or PDF) and
the .html versions without further effort by the author.
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