[OS X TeX] Hevea

[Gerben Wierda]

Actually, I will be investigating this. It will probably be easy for me 
to add hevea as a sub-package to the TeX i-Package. Maybe I'll first 
wait for people's opinion on Hevea. Is it reallly good? As good as 
TeX4ht?

G

On 18 Feb 2005, at 16:27, Alan Munn wrote:

> At 7:17 PM -0700 2/17/05, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:
>> What box?  There is no OS X binary!  If ``out of the box'' means, 
>> once you create the make file and do all that finicky unix stuff, and 
>> finally get a binary in the right directory, then figure out the 
>> cmd-line call, then ``it works''; well, that is hardly ``out of the 
>> box'', IMHO.
>>
>> On 17-Feb-05, at 6:00 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:
>>
>>> I have had much better results than either of these two packages with
>>> hevea http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/  which works well
>>> straight out of the box.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>
> I hesitate to respond to this, having just joined the list, and not 
> wanting to begin a flame war.  I guess I didn't quite realise that 
> 'out of the box' might not always be interpreted in a relative way as 
> I used it.  So yes, hevea is not a Cocoa application, but it does work 
> well in that I can produce a LaTeX document and with a single command 
> create pretty reasonable HTML.  Also, my suggestion was made in the 
> context of two other non-GUI apps (latex2html and tex4ht).
>
> Since installing a package like hevea is not much different than 
> installing a LaTeX package from CTAN, I assumed that people on this 
> list would not object to the suggestion. In particular, (as another 
> poster noted) there is an OS X binary download and the 'finicky unix' 
> stuff is simply two copy commands.
>
> Anyway, sorry if I misled anyone.
>
> Alan
>
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