Xref: feenix.metronet.com comp.infosystems.www:1421 comp.text.tex:11389 alt.hypertext:1168 comp.text.sgml:1429 Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www,comp.text.tex,alt.hypertext,comp.text.sgml Path: feenix.metronet.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!uknet!festival!leeds.ac.uk!news From: nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk (N F Drakos) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: LaTeX2HTML v0.3.1 available Message-ID: <1993Sep2.141733.2564@gps.leeds.ac.uk> Sender: nntp@gps.leeds.ac.uk Organization: University of Leeds, U.K. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 14:17:33 GMT Lines: 112 A new release of the LaTeX2HTML translator (v0.3.1) is now available. Summary of the most important changes since v0.2 ************************************************ o Image Recycling Images for equations, tables, figures, special characters etc., generated by the translator are reused during subsequent runs. This offers tremendous improvements in speed after an initial successful translation. o Cross-References Between (Local or Remote) Documents Cross-references between documents (possibly on remote locations) can be established via symbolic labels which are independent of the physical filenames. Such cross-references will be maintained with a re-translation even after one or more of the documents have been broken into different physical parts or moved. o New Options -external_images Images are accessed via hypertext links instead of being "inlined". -ascii_mode The navigation icons switch to ascii equivalents and images are not "inlined". This option makes documents more portable. o New Texexpand (contributed by Robert S. Thau ) Online information via the World Wide Web ***************************************** For more information on how to retrieve, install and use the translator see: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html An *ascii version* of the same documentation is at: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html.ascii/latex2html.ascii.html A postscript version of the above is available at: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html.ps The full list of changes from v0.2 is at: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/subsection3.8.2.html and the changes from v0.3 at: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/subsection3.8.1.html For the brave ones who got v0.3 last week there is a patch to take you to v0.3.1 in: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/previous-versions/patch0.3-to-0.3.1 The new release should become available via anonymous ftp from ftp.tex.ac.uk in pub/archive/support/latex2html ***soon***. Overview ******** The translator: o breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by the user, o provides an optional next, previous, and up navigation panel on every page, o handles equations, tables, figures, and any arbitrary environment. These are passed to [LaTeX] and then converted to images which are either included in the document or are made available through hypertext links, o can produce output suitable for browsers that support inlined images or character based browsers (as specified by the user), o handles definitions of new commands, environments, and theorems even when these are defined in external style files, o handles footnotes, tables of contents, lists of figures and tables, bibliographies, and can generate an index, o translates cross-references into hyperlinks, o extends the [LaTeX] cross-referencing mechanism to work not just within a document but between documents which may reside in remote locations, o recognizes hypertext links (to sound/video/ftp/http/news etc. addresses) expressed as LaTeX commands, o can deal sensibly at least with the Common [LaTeX] commands summarized at the back of the [LaTeX] blue book [1], o will try and translate any document with embedded [LaTeX] commands irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically legal. Requirements ************ The translator makes use of the following public domain programs and libraries: o [LaTeX], dvips (version 5.512 or later). These are part of the same distribution. o Perl (version 4.0 - RCSfile: perl.c,v - Revision: 4.0.1.8 - Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 - Patch level: 36) o gs (Ghostscript version 2.6.1). This is necessary for the conversion of postscript files to the XBM and GIF formats. o The pbmplus library (distribution of 22nov89 or later). From this, the utilities pnmcrop and ppmtoxbm are used during the postscript to XBM conversion. If ghostscipt or the pbmplus library are not available it is still possible to get acceptable output but without equations, figures, tables, special symbols and arbitrary environments. [1] Leslie Lamport. LATEX User's Guide & Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1986. Nikos Drakos Computer Based Learning Unit University of Leeds.