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M. Goosen and S. Rahtz with E. Gurari, R. Moore, and R. Sutor, The LaTeX Web Companion,
Addison-Wesley, 1999 (German translation; changes in recent distributions). TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-based applications through style files and postprocessors, leaving the processing of the source files to the native TeX compiler. Consequently, TeX4ht can handle the features of TeX-based systems in general, and of the LaTeX and AMS style files in particular.
The examples of this document relate mainly to configurations tailored for HTML transitional 4.0, XHTML, HTML 3.2, HTML for Microsoft Word, MathML, DocBook, TEI, and CSS. The document itself is available for downloading in zipped format (osu, tug).[unzip]
Typical LaTeX source files can be compiled into standard HTML and XML formats in a manner similar to the way they are compiled into print formats, namely, through variations of the command ‘htlatex filename "options1" "option2" "options3"’. For instance,
htlatex foo htlatex foo "html,2,info" htlatex foo "" "dbcs/!" htlatex foo "foo,frames" "" "-p" wlatex foo
In some platforms the double quotes should be replaced with single right-quotes, and in some cases they might be omitted.
The main features of TeX4ht are described in:
M. Goosen and S. Rahtz with E. Gurari, R. Moore, and R. Sutor, The LaTeX Web Companion,
Addison-Wesley, 1999 (German translation; changes in recent distributions). The documents From LaTeX to MathML and Back with TeX4ht and PassiveTeX, LaTeX to XML/MathML, and A demonstration of TeX4ht may provide additional insight into the system (and some outdated details).
To be installed, the system needs a port made up of native utilities of TeX4ht and of non-native utilities (see overview). The TeX Live and 4allTeX CD-ROM distributions, the SuSE package management (RPM) directory, and the Debian Linux, fpTeX , and simtelnet distributions, include installed versions of these utilities. Hence, users having no need for the latest version of TeX4ht might be well served by getting the system from the above distributions.
The current document gives instructions on how to establish ports for Unix and MS Windows. Alternative ports for these and other platforms can be tailored in a similar manner.
Philip A. Viton discusses in details issues of installing TeX4ht under MikTeX and Scientific Word/WorkPlace, but many of the topics apply also to other platforms. The port Gertjan Klein proposed for an older version of TeX4ht suggests alternative ways to conduct the translation of pictures into gif’s. Steven Zeil offers improvements for the above settings.
Steve Mayer programmed a graphical user interface for a set of converters on MS Windows, supporting also TeX4ht.
trouble shooting | Q/A | bug fixes
| Languages: | LaTeX, TeX, HTML, XML, MathML, DocBook, TEI, Style Sheets, DTDs, Validators |
| Converters into HTML/XML: |
Bbl2HTML 1, BibHTML
2, Bib2HTML 3, Bib2HTML
4, BibTeX2HTML
5, Dlh
6, Euromath
7, GELLMU 8,
HEVEA 9, HTeX
10, HtmlTeX
11, HTMX 12,
HyperLaTeX 13,
HyperTeX 14, LaTeX2HTML
15, LaTeX2hyp
16, LaTeX2man 17, Ltoh 18, Ltx2x
19,
Math2HTML 20,
MathWriter 21, MicroPress TeXpider 22, Ml2om
23, TeX2HTML 24, TeX2Page
25, TeX2RTF
26, Texi2HTML 27, Texi2www
28
, TeXPort WEB 29, Tohtml
30, Tth 31, Vulcanize 32 |
| Backward Converters: | |
| Converters for other formats: | |
| Conversion to Bitmaps | math on the web | web publishing with LaTeX | conversion services | |
TeX4ht is provided under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). However, it is allowed to modify the files without changing their names, if the signatures of the files are modified (see copyright notices within the files).
I am very grateful for the suggestions, contributions, and bug reports offered by many people. In particular, thanks go to Gertjan Klein and Sebastian Rahtz who got deeply involved in the project for long periods of time, and to Philip Viton for his documentation.