TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext

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 LaTeX in particular.

The examples of this document relate mainly to configurations tailored for HTML 3.2, HTML transitional 4.0, CSS, XML, and MathML. The document itself, zipped together with the files of TeX4ht, is available for downloading (osu, tug).[unzip]

* Features   * Installation   * Examples of Products   * Resources   * Acknowledgment  

Features

A manual for the main features of TeX4ht is included within a forthcoming manuscript about LaTeX and the Web. Outlines of many of these and other features are provided here.
* From LaTeX to HTML   * Low-Level Features   * Sectioning and Tables of Contents   * Tables   * Lists and Environments   * Pictures   * Mathematical Formulas   * Paragraphs   * Configuration Files   * Cascade Style Sheets (CSS)   * Xml   * Fonts   * Literate Programs (with ProTeX) and Scripts   * TeX  

The demonstration of TeX4ht in TUG97 illustrates the nature of the system (some of the mentioned features, however, are outdated).

Installation

For the system to run it needs a port made up of native utilities of TeX4ht and of non-native utilities. The TeX Live and 4allTeX CD-ROM 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 Win 95 / DOS. Alternative ports for these and other environments can be tailored in a similar manner.

The port Gertjan Klein proposed for an older version of TeX4ht suggests alternative ways to conduct the translation of pictures into gif. Steven Zeil offers improvements for the above settings.

Examples of Products

* TeX Live - Unix and Windows TeX on a CD-ROM (LaTeX to HTML 4.0) * 4allTeXCD-ROM (HTML 3.2) * Boot Control: alternative MBR software (LaTeX to HTML 3.2) * TeXProject: A Mini Manual (LaTeX to HTML 3.2) * A book on Theory of Computation (LaTeX to HTML 3.2) * XML and MathML from LaTeX * Current document (TeX to HTML 4.0)

Resources

Languages: LaTeX, TeX, HTML, XML, MathML, Style Sheets
Validators: HTML, CSS, XML
Converters:
BibTeX2HTML 1, GELLMU 2, HEVEA 3 , HTeX 4, HyperLaTeX 5, HyperTeX 6, LaTeX2HTML 7, LaTeX2hyp 8, Ltoh 9, Ltx2x 10, Math2html 11, MicroPress TeXpider 12, TeX2HTML 13, TeX2HTML 14, Texi2HTML 15, TeX2RTF 16, Tth 17, Vulcanize 18, PdfTeX 19
Convertion
services: 		TOM (Typed Object Model)

Acknowledgment

I am very grateful for the advise and contributions offered by different people to the development of TeX4ht. In particular, thanks go to Gertjan Klein and Sebastian Rahtz who got deeply involved in the project for long periods of time.

Eitan M. Gurari
gurari@cis.ohio-state.edu
October 21, 1998