TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-based applications through style files and postprocessors, leaving the processing of the source files to the native TeX compiler. Consequently, TeX4ht can handle the features of TeX-based systems in general, and of the LaTeX and AMS style files in particular.
The examples of this document relate mainly to configurations tailored for HTML transitional 4.0, XHTML, HTML 3.2, HTML for Microsoft Word, MathML, DocBook, TEI, and CSS. The document itself is available for downloading in zipped format (osu, tug).[unzip]
Typical LaTeX source files can be compiled into standard HTML and XML formats in a manner similar to the way they are compiled into print formats, namely, through variations of the command ‘htlatex filename "options1" "option2" "options3"’. For instance,
In some platforms the double quotes should be replaced with single right-quotes, and in some cases they might be omitted.
The main features of TeX4ht are described in:
The documents From LaTeX to MathML and Back with TeX4ht and PassiveTeX, LaTeX to XML/MathML, and A demonstration of TeX4ht may provide additional insight into the system (and some outdated details).
To be installed, the system needs a port made up of native utilities of TeX4ht and of non-native utilities. The TeX Live and 4allTeX CD-ROM distributions, the SuSE package management (RPM) directory, and the Debian Linux, fpTeX, MikTeX, and simtelnet distributions, offer (possibly older) installed versions of TeX4ht.
The current document gives instructions on how to establish ports for Unix and MS Windows. Alternative ports for these and other platforms can be tailored in a similar manner.
Philip A. Viton discusses in details issues of installing TeX4ht under MikTeX and Scientific Word/WorkPlace, but many of the topics apply also to other platforms. The port Gertjan Klein proposed for an older version of TeX4ht suggests alternative ways to conduct the translation of pictures into gif’s. Steven Zeil offers improvements for the above settings.
Steve Mayer programmed a graphical user interface for a set of converters on MS Windows, supporting also TeX4ht.
trouble shooting | Q/A | bug fixes
Languages: | LaTeX/TeX, HTML, XML/XSLT, MathML, DocBook, TEI, Style Sheets, DTDs, Validators |
Converters into HTML/XML: |
BibHTML 1, Bib2HTML 2, Bib2HTML
3, Bib2HTML
4, Bib2HTML
5, Bib2HTML
6, BibTeX2HTML
7, Dlh
8, Euromath
9, GELLMU 10,
HEVEA 11, HTeX
12, HtmlTeX
13, HTMX 14,
HyperLaTeX 15,
HyperTeX 16, Itex2mml
17, LaTeX2HTML
18, LaTeX2hyp
19, LaTeX2man 20, Ltoh 21, Ltx2x
22,
Math2HTML 23,
MathWriter 24, MicroPress TeXpider 25, Omega
26, pyLaTeX
27, Selathco
28, TeX2HTML
29, TeX2Page
30, TeX2RTF
31, Texi2HTML 32, Texi2www
33
, TeXPort WEB 34, Tth
35, Vulcanize 36 |
Backward Converters: | |
Converters for other formats: | |
Conversion to Bitmaps | math on the web | web publishing with LaTeX | conversion services |
TeX4ht is provided under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). However, it is allowed to modify the files without changing their names, if the signatures of the files are modified (see copyright notices within the files).
I am very grateful for the suggestions, contributions, and bug reports offered by many people. In particular, thanks go to Gertjan Klein and Sebastian Rahtz who got deeply involved in the project for long periods of time, and to Philip Viton for his documentation.