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.
This document relates mainly to configurations tailored for different variants of HTML, MathML, OpenOffice, DocBook, TEI, and CSS. The document and code are available for downloading in zipped format.[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" "options4"’. For instance,
In some platforms the double quotes should be replaced with single right-quotes, and in some cases they might be omitted.
For details, visit the calling commands section.
The main features of TeX4ht are described in:
To be installed, the system needs a port made up of native utilities of TeX4ht and of non-native utilities. The easiest way to establish an up to date port is to download an installed distribution of the system, and refresh it with the files provided here.
Establishing ports from scratch for Unix and MS Windows require additional effort, mainly because of the need to set up non-native utilities. Alternative ports for these and other platforms can be tailored in a similar manner. The distribution assumes compilation through command lines but graphical user inferfaces may also be employed.
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. Steven Zeil offers improvements for the above settings.
The literate sources of TeX4ht are also available, but they are not needed for installing the system. The literate views are very far from being in a desirable state for a review by a public eye–they reflect their true nature as being privately used for developing and maintaining the available code. The views follow a basement mentality: throw in without much scrutiny any item of possible value at some point of time, and clean a corner when the need arises for working on a specific issue of the code.
trouble shooting | Q/A | bug fixes
The development of the TeX4ht system is to a large degree driven by users’ bug reports and requests. In most cases, when providing feedback, it is essential to include the following information.
Translations of source files are centered around logical structures. Formatting instructions receive only limited attention.
Languages: | LaTeX/TeX, HTML, XML/XSLT, MathML, DocBook, TEI, Style Sheets, DTDs, Validators |
Converters into HTML/XML: |
BibHTML 1, Bib2HTML 2, Bib2HTML
3, Bib2XHTML
4,
BibTeX2HTML 5, Dlh
6, Euromath
7, GELLMU 8,
Hermes 9, HEVEA 10, HTeX
11, HtmlTeX
12, HTMX 13,
HyperLaTeX 14,
HyperTeX 15, Itex2mml
16, LaTeXML
17,
LaTeX2HTML 18, LaTeX2man
19, LaTeX2MathML 20, LaTeX4Web 21, Ltoh 22, Ltx2x
23,
MicroPress TeXpider 24,
ORCCA 25, pyLaTeX 26, Selathco
27, TeX2HTML
28, TeX2Page
29, TeX2RTF
30, Texi2HTML 31, Texi2www
32
, TeXPort WEB 33,
TexToWebPublishing 34, Tralics
35, Tth 36, Vulcanize 37, WebEQ
38 |
Backward Converters: |
Gf 1, Htex 2, HTML2LaTeX 3, HTML2LaTeX 4, HTML2LaTeX 5, HTML2TeX
6, JadeTeX 7, Passive TeX 8, SGML2TeX 9,
TeXML 10, TeXML
11, TypeHTML
12, XMLTeX 13, Writer2LaTeX 14, Brute Force
15 |
Converters for other formats: | |
Conversion to Bitmaps | math on the web | web publishing with LaTeX |
TeX4ht is provided under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).
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, to Carmen Fierro and Piotr Grabowski for extensive feedback regarding the MathML configurations, and to Philip Viton for his superb documentation.
This work is partially sponsored by NSF grant IIS-0312487.