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Hi Tom,<br>
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There are a lot of answers to your question, as there are different
applications trying to get the job done in a LaTeX to webpage
conversion. Some examples:<br>
<br>
1. The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dlmf.nist.gov/">http://dlmf.nist.gov/</a>), a complete revision of Abramowitz and Stegun’s
Handbook of Mathematical Functions, is written entirely in LaTeX and
converted to XHTML+MathML via LaTeXML (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/">http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/</a>).<br>
<br>
2. Zentralblatt Math (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/">http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/</a>)
offers partial support for "webified" formulas via MathML, produced via
Tralics (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/">http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/</a>)<br>
<br>
3. Many authors rely on the more classical, yet more complete in
support tools, namely latex2html (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latex2html.org/">http://www.latex2html.org/</a>) and
tex4ht (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/">http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/</a>).<br>
<br>
So, what you choose for converting your LaTeX document to a webpage
depends on what your particular needs are. Now, I am personally
slightly biased towards LaTeXML, so I won't try to push my own
preferences, but I would definitely recommend it ;-)<br>
<br>
If I understand correctly your second question, you are asking if you
can require a compile-to-pdf invocation whenever someone downloads a
file? Why not keep a static PDF and rerun LaTeX and your choice of a
LaTeX-to-Web software when you update the file? You can write a simple
Makefile that does that for you in principle.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Deyan<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 08/19/2010 11:40 PM, Thomas Jacobs wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTi=63k7hoxk7i-4gtQtUuQeUVj62TRL884JQwiLe@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi there,
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<div>I have an interdisciplinary question regarding the use of LateX
for webpages and the production of .pdf documents. <span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Suppose
I wish to create a bunch of faculty resource pages on my website. I
want them easily accessible for faculty desiring a quick answer to
something as well as comprehensively available in a .pdf document
someone could download to read and study on a more macro basis which
would encompass many of the web pages of material. Is there any way to
do this and only maintain the material in one place so one could browse
website pages or hit a button and download a .pdf file? I know how to
do the latter in LaTeX but am unfamiliar with using LaTeX to generate
web pages. If one can do this, is it better to compile the .pdf
documents every time the page material is updated or is there a way to
have the webpage be smart enough to compile the material into a .pdf
document whenever someone wishes to download? Thanks for any thing
anyone could recommend. If anyone has good resources for creating web
pages with LaTeX (assuming that is not nonsensical), that would also be
appreciated.<br>
</span><br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Tom<br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
Thomas Jacobs, FRM, PRM, PhD<br>
Assistant Professor of Finance<br>
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business<br>
DePaul University<br>
(312) 362-6039 (W) (630) 640-9294 (C)<br>
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