3 LaTeX to HTML conversion

A basic TEX package such as MiKTeX supports publication of the document on paper, or on the Web as a passive Postscript or PDF file. It is also increasingly attractive to publish technical documents on the Web with active hyperlinks to other material. There is a role for any package that can convert a single .tex master into high-quality printouts, into single-file Postcript or PDF files, or into an easily-navigable HTML file cluster with active hyperlinks, as required.

Documents prepared in L^ATEX are well suited for automatic conversion into HTML webs. Table 1 illustrates a mapping between document markup tools provided by L^ATEX and by HTML. Although L^ATEX offers precise layout control and mathematical markups that cannot yet be used by most web browsers, it is attractive to generate HTML webs automatically from L^ATEX source files because

1. any valid L^ATEX document is structurally robust, and
2. its basic structure (as opposed to detailed format) can be mapped uniquely into HTML.

Table 1: LaTeX/HTML Equivalencies

LaTeX	HTML
\chapter	$<$H1$>$
\section	$<$H2$>$
\subsection	$<$H3$>$
\subsubsection	$<$H4$>$
\par	$<$P$>$
\begin{description}	$<$DL$>$
\begin{enumerate}	$<$OL$>$
\begin{itemize}	$<$UL$>$
\item	$<$LI$>$
\begin{table}	$<$TABLE$>$
\begin{figure}	$<$IMG$>$
\emph{text}	$<$EM$>$text$<$/EM$>$
\textit{text}	$<$I$>$text$<$/I$>$
\textbf{text}	$<$B$>$text$<$/B$>$
\texttt{text}	$<$TT$>$text$<$/TT$>$
\verb|text|	$<$PRE$>$text$<$/PRE$>$
\label{text}	$<$A NAME="text"$>$
\ref{text}	$<$A HREF="#text"$>$

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