[l2h] Converting math statements only into images...

[Matthew Low]

Do you have dvipng? What you could do is latex the file and then run
dvipng the dvi output. That would give you a .png format image of
whatever formula you typed in the latex file.

Matt



On 12/29/05, Ken Keefe <kjkeefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to write a simple script that does something much more basic
> than latex2html and I was hoping that this list would be a good place to
> get some advice. My students are creating webpage projects about
> different mathematicians and obviously many of them have use for an easy
> way to include various equations that involve integrals and sums and so
> on. Anyway, we have been writing their equations in latex and then using
> latex2html and then farming out the images. This can be a pain for
> various reasons, so here is what I would rather do:
>
> I'd like my students to write their equation in a basic latex file,
> like:
>
>   \documentclass{article}
>   \begin{document}
>   \[
>   test(\frac{2}{3})
>   \]
>   \end{document}
>
> and then have a simple script that does something like the following:
>
> $ latex2png test.tex
>
> I am not well versed in perl, which is making my dissection of
> latex2html especially painful, but I am pretty good with BASH scripting.
> So, I'm open to any suggestions. I am not against using latex2html
> somehow, but I'd like to learn how to do this using latex or other basic
> commands (for no reason other than I want to learn how latex2html does
> it). BTW, I am using Fedora Core 4 and I want to do this all in linux
> (in case that wasn't obvious).
>
> Thanks so much for your help ahead of time!
>
> Ken
>
>
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