[OS X TeX] DarwinPorts/package managers, and which do you prefer: htlatex or latex2html?

[Kevin Walzer]

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Saw the thread today on package managers and particularly DarwinPorts. I
fully agree that DarwinPorts is a powerful package manager, but it's not
user-friendly. To help rectify that, I'm working on a GUI for
DarwinPorts written in Tcl/Tk. It's not ready for release yet, but
here's a screenshot:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/12786

One of the interesting things about DarwinPorts is that they use DocBook
for their documentation, so I'm learning that. I wish they were more
receptive to LaTeX, because I've spent a lot of time learning LaTeX, and
it's *so* much better managed/integrated on OS X, with better tools.
There's *nothing* to compare to TexShop or iTexMac or even TexMaker, let
alone a centrally maintained DocBook toolchain distro like Gerben's TeX
packages. (DarwinPorts and Fink both support DocBook, but I haven't been
able to get either one to work; perhaps I'm too dumb.) I'm using a
freeware XML/DocBook editor to generate HTML documentation, but forget
generating PDF--setting up a DocBook PDF workflow on OS X is *painful.*
If I could stick with LaTeX + latex2html (the navigation links produced
by htlatex are too funky for my tastes) I'd be a happy camper.

Which do others prefer--htlatex or latex2html, or something else?

Kevin

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