[OS X TeX] Fink and LaTeX2HTML question

[Ross Moore]

> On Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 02:31 , Hemant K. Bhargava wrote:
> 
> > I'll pay a $100 for a easily-installable osx version of latex2html!
> 
> I'll bite (and pre-announce a little application that will be available 
> soon).
> 

Hi Gerben,

> The reason I have been pretty silent last week is that I am working on a 
> new delivery mechanism for my TeX distribution. Essentially, it is a 
> generic package installer which is http-aware, which means that packages 
> may be remote. It also has an auto-update feature, remove feature, (and 
> many more features).
> 
> With a mechanism like this, I can split my distribution easily in many 
> chunks. When I finish the application (somewhere this week, I hope), it 
> will be available with 3 packages: TeXLive-bin (6MB), teTeX-texmf (40MB) 
> and ghostscript6 (maybe teTeX-bin too). But when the system is there, it 
> will be far easier for me to support separate additions, like cm-super, 
> latex2html, or whatever is my or your fancy.

Please include ghostscript7 as an option too.
I don't know what the problems are that you've experienced with this,
but it's almost certainly to do with screen displays.
There should be no problem at all with using it as a filter for raster
image formats, as is needed with LaTeX2HTML.

Besides, the Mac problems will be fixed sometime, so it will be useful
to have the option available already.

> 
> G
> 

On a different note, some time ago you asked about the 
'encapsulated PDF' idea that I described.
This is now implemented online, at:

	http://www.iciam.com/abstracts/cgi-bin/latex_read.cgi

Click in the radio-button marked:  Encapsulated PDF image
and provide some LaTeX source in the text-fields below.

When it comes back with the  Success!!  message,
then click on:  Get the PDF_file  to view the (E)PDF image.


It should be pretty stable, provided the LaTeX code is valid.

Have fun!


Cheers,

	Ross

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