HTML is a markup language mainly used for creating web pages.
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Why haven't any TeX->HTML converters been updated to use current web standards/style?
I think that updating these converters would help TeX stay relevant as a document processing language. In these last few years, web development has really skyrocketed. CSS3 has brought along a lot of ...
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Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of image-rendered TeX snippets?
What is the most accurate way to automatically calculate the text baseline in an image that has been rendered from a TeX snippet—so that the rendered image can be given proper vertical alignment in a ...
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How do I convert HTML to LaTeX?
I would like a way to convert a document from HTML to LaTeX on a Windows platform. What is my best option?
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What features are supported in a HTML page, but not through PDFLaTeX
As a math educator with limited knowledge of TeX and even more limited knowledge of HTML, I want to know if I can use a PDF page (generated through PDFLaTeX) as a web page. I am hoping not to have to ...
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How to create PDF and HTML output from the same source
I'm working on a document that has been published only as a PDF file until now. To utilize some of PDF's features, it uses the packages pdfpages and pdftex and commands like includepdf{}.
But soon ...
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Tool for manipulating LaTeX tables (HTML to LaTeX)
I am wondering if there is any tool that can help me work with tables in LaTeX. Specifically I'd like to be able to import HTML tables (or small Excel tables) into LateX
Are there tools that can help ...
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Converting ConTeXt document to HTML
For LaTeX, I used to rely on htlatex, latex2html, or more rarely tth. I know that we can use XML with ConTeXt, although I have no experience with this, and that Pandoc let us use Markdown syntax and ...
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Convert LaTeX to HTML
Is there a converter that will convert LaTeX to HTML? I have tried several services but the LaTeX diagrams and some of the maths came out weird.
I actually converted the Latex to PDF without a ...
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PDF image files and `htlatex`
When eps files are provided, htlatex from tex4ht automatically converts to png files so that graphic files can be shown in the final html output. However, I use most of the time the pdf graphic file ...
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\listings code style for HTML5 (CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
I would like to create a code style for HTML5 that can be used with the \listings package.
An HTML5 document consists of three languages: CSS, HTML and JavaScript. That makes the whole thing a bit ...
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Can you have hyperlinks to locations in different PDFs?
It's possible to hyperlink to another PDF file using Adobe Acrobat using the following LaTeX code:
\href{run:target.pdf}{Click me!}
If this is placed in source.pdf, then you can click on the ...
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Beamer and JavaScript in a web browser
I have written a talk in Beamer and to illustrate one of my points I've written a program in JavaScript (well actually Processing). You can view it here (it seems to run ok in Chrome and Firefox, and ...
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Width threshold for space detection
I'm writing this stuff pdf2htmlEX, for each distance between two consecutive letters, I need to check if there should be a space character or not. Especially for PDF files generated by LaTeX, which ...
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Is there some typesetting system that uses XML notation?
Is there some typesetting system that uses XML for notation? This is no offense, but I don't like to type \emph{This \emph{text} is important} despite the fact that there are editors that can do it ...
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PDF page references in TeX4ht generated html?
I'm using TeX4ht to make html and epub versions of documents that are also processed to pdf. I'm unclear on how to include some kind of visual page references in the html and epub that correlate to ...
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Alternatives to bibtex2html
As the title says, are there viable alternatives to bibtex2html for converting bibliographic entries to HTML?
I am specifically looking for some command-line utility allowing to export a bib files ...
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LaTeX generated website with TikZ diagrams
I am trying to generate my static website with LaTeX to avoid tedious/verbose HTML and underpowered markdown languages.
I know of latex2html and htlatex/TeX4ht for generating documents in the HTML ...
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Convert Latex to MathJax-HTML
Is there any tool that can convert Latex documents to HTML documents, so that all math is presented with MathJax?
(Obviously, it is fairly easy to hack together a quick Perl script that is able to do ...
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Using TeX fonts in HTML documents?
If I want to use TeX fonts (such as cmr10, cmbx10, cmtt10, and so forth) in my HTML documents, what are the recommended ways to do that?
As a thought experiment and proof-of-concept, this afternoon I ...
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Unicode or control sequences?
What kind of troubles may occur if Unicode characters will be entered directly in the following situations (English, no math):
Diacritics: for example, ö instead of \"{o}.
Em, en dashes and minuses.
...
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Producing unformatted html with tex4ht?
When using tex4ht, a formatted html file is obtained. It uses a css file and multiple classes such as
<span class="ec-lmbx-10x-x-109">toto</span>
However, when using a Content ...
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How to incorporate TeX into a website?
How should I incorporate TeX in a website to render mathematical formulas? If there are multiple ways, what is the easiest way?
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How to Convert XeTeX to HTML
I realize its too much to post the entire document. Here is a small portion of document, it just keep repeating itself for various verses. Sorry this is the minimum example size I could squeeze it to. ...
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tabular environment that is similar to html
How can I simulate a HTML table? That is: I want to give the table a maximum width (for example \textwidth) and the table should automatically distribute the necessary space according to the contents ...
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zero-installation LaTeX-ish math for casual users?
I teach physics at a community college, often to biology majors who are not math or computer geeks. For certain assignments, I require them to type up materials that include math. A typical ...
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HTML converter possible as a TeX package?
I know there are a lot of threads on existing Tex-HTML converters already, but I have a question about the feasibility of creating one.
Existing tools use other scripting languages to parse raw TeX ...
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Isn't TeX similar to HTML+CSS?
As I said in the title, isn't TeX "similar" to static web pages? Can you accomplish the same things with both, or is TeX limited to words?
Why would one prefer HTML and CSS over TeX, or vice versa?
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htlatex with article vs memoir
Why does the following document (with article document class):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c|c}
\hline
1 & 2 \\
\hline
\hline
5 & 6 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
...
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Converting LaTeX to HTML5 [closed]
HTML5 allows for great rendering. Crocodoc for example does a great conversion from PDF to HTML5. Is there any tool to convert LaTeX to HTML5? Does tex4ht support HTML5?
Here's an example of what ...
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Lightweight equivalent of \cref and \Cref
I'm trying to convert my LaTeX document to HTML using HeVeA and I'm facing a problem with cleveref package -- my LaTeX file uses \cref and \Cref heavily, but hevea doesn't support this package by ...
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LaTeX to HTML: PolyTeXnic and PlasTeX
I was stunned by the elegant appearance of the Tau manifesto page, for which the source is in LaTeX. The author used a home-made tool that he calls PolyTeXnic, but which he is not willing to release.
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External (HTML) link to a specific page of a pdf file
I want to hyperlink to a certain page of a pdf file created with LaTeX from an HTML context or just as a plain-text link outside the file, e.g. using <a href="...">...</a>. Is it possible ...
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How to use decimal HTML characters
How do I use decimal based HTML characters such as these:
ﭑﭒﭓﭔﭕﭖﭗﭘﭙ
with a special truetype font ...
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Are there any server-side LaTeX to HTML-CSS converters?
I'm looking for something equivalent to MathJax, but that does the conversion(s) from MathML or LaTeX to HTML-CSS on the server backend as my site is rendering the page, rather than relying on ...
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Can you run mk4ht on iPad or Android?
I need to create html files from tex using mk4ht on an iPad or an Android tablet... Is there any way to run mk4ht on iOS or Android? Preferably without requiring Internet connection, but if that's not ...
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How to convert mdash into LaTeX markup?
I am converting HTML markup into LaTeX markup by using sed command. I need to convert — into its corresponding LaTeX markup. How can I implement it?
— into LaTeX markup
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awk script for coverting BibTeX to XHTML
I found several nawk and gawk scripts scattered all over the Internet for converting BibTeX files to HTML mostly written in 90s. A quick look into source code indicates, not surprisingly, that some of ...
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LaTeX to HTML - Square roots
I used SimpleTeX4ht to convert a LaTeX file to HTML. The file is fine except that square roots are rendering badly in juxtaposition with the rest of the text, e.g. like:
Any suggestions on how to ...
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tex4ht leaving equations unchanged
I'm trying to convert a LaTeX document to a webpage that'll be hosted on a server that's capable of processing and rendering simple TeX equations, but not doing section-level formatting.
So I'm ...
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Can I compile .tex to .html from within AUCTeX?
Can I compile .tex to .html from within AUCTeX? What are the keybindings?
Thanks!
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How to get tex4ht to respect listings styling better ?
I've been producing PDFs and HTML from Latex sources, using tex4ht for the HTML (I'm on Debian/Lenny; so whatever versions are default on that).
I'm using the listings package to include source code.
...
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Missing <sub> tags in tex4ht output
When processing a LaTeX source with tex4ht, I can't seem to reliably convert subscripts in text mode to <sub> tags in the HTML output. My only solution so far is to switch to math mode. But for ...
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Remove beamer markup
I have a main.book.tex and a main.beamer.tex which then \input the same source files. In those source files, I have a lot of \mode<> designations and generally, a lot of beamer markup ...
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HTML to Latex: Converting CSS styles to respetive LaTeX functions
I am using HTML to LaTeX programme to convert large quantity of HTML files. A typical example:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
...
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How to export biblatex data to HTML?
I've been using biblatex for a while, and I now want to export my biblatex
citation data to HTML, too.
There are bibtex2html and some other tools for bibtex, but I couldn't find
any equivalent tool ...
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latex2html: Includes junk from document preamble and other mess. [closed]
I'm trying to make a clean web-version of a significantly sized tex document. latex2html works 'ok' except for not being able to handle lots of packages. Thats not a problem since I'm not that worried ...
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Where can I get the source code to LaTeX2HTML?
I want to get and improve the source of the LaTeX2HTML program, but the top Google results are outdated, with broken links.
Does anyone know where the source resides?
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Best Authoring Environment/Meta-Language for Multi-Targeting Output
Is there a good higher-level language or tex environment that would facilate both HTML and PDF rendering? I would like to be able to write tex document and on the basis of this document create ...
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Pandoc - Convert XeTeX to HTML
I posted the question here How to Convert XeTeX to Html
However I tried something different so decided to ask the issues with the results as a new question.
So far my XeTeX file is nicely getting ...
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When generating html, how do you specify image size?
I am using htlatex (or as many people call it tex4ht) to generate html and I have included some graphics. Htlatex seems to ignore all the size arguments I give the image size. I've tried specifying:
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