From LATEX to HTML and back
M. Goossens, Janne Saarela · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1995
Both L A T E X and HTML are languages that can express the structure of a document, and similarities between these two systems are shown. A detailed study is made of the LaTeX2HTML program, written by Nikos Drakos, that is today the most complete utility for translating L A T E X code into HTML, providing a quasi-automatic translation for most elements. A discussion of a few other tools for translating between HTML and L A T E X concludes the article. 1 Similarities between L A T E X and HTML HTML and L A T E X are both generic markup systems, and a comparison between tags for structural elements in both cases is shown in Table 1. In most cases the differences are trivial, seeming to indicate that, at first approximation, translating between these two systems should not prove too difficult. The translation programs described in this article use these similarities, but in order to exploit the richness of the L A T E X language as compared to HTML (especially HTML2, whic...