[OS X TeX] User Friendly LaTeX to HTML Converter?
Matthew Leingang
leingang at math.harvard.edu
Tue Apr 29 00:56:39 CEST 2008
On Apr 28, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Richard J Benish wrote:
> At the beginning of the initial thread (LaTeX2html Basics?)
> concerning this topic I mentioned my desire to convert portions of
> a long paper to html. (That thread digressed a bit, so I started a
> new one.)
Dear Richard,
I can definitely understand your desire to do so. But in case you're
flexible on the format, there are some other alternatives.
* Websites like scribd.com allow you to upload and share PDFs in a
snazzy Web 2.0 way. It gives you a flash-based view of the document
that you can page through, and snippets of HTML that you can paste
into your web pages. See
http://www.scribd.com/doc/511292/Lesson-24-Optimization-II-worksheet-
solutions
for an example. You can even retain all the rights on whatever you
publish through them.
* You can just link to the PDF. Google can search PDFs so you retain
a lot of machine-readability. The majority of users use a browser
with an Acrobat Reader plugin so their experience is almost the same
as if the page were HTML. (Not that I'm advocating doing whatever
the majority wants; I'm just saying that in my years of posting PDFs
to the web, nobody's asked me to please post an HTML version instead.)
Also, GELLMU <http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/> takes source
files written in a slightly-dumbed down LaTeX syntax and can create
HTML, XHTML+MathML, or PDF. I don't know too much about it, but
I've always wanted to learn more. This might not be the choice for
you since your paper is already written in standard LaTeX.
I think that people who do a lot of wholesale conversion from latex
to html use scriptable applications such as tex4ht, but even that
doesn't work 100% of the time. And a GUI app is still only as good
as its backend.
Regards,
Matthew Leingang
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Matthew Leingang
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